THE EXCEPTIONAL NUMBER OF FRENCH ENTRIES...

 

SHOW THE IMPORTANCE OF ITS MONARCHY

Most of the images one finds on the web are French: The first date from the middle of the 15th century, when the monarchy emerges strengthened from the Hundred Years War.

• Louis VII enters Constantinople

      By Jean Fouquet, toward 1455  

   

• Entries in provincial towns*

*Stendhal describes the excitement and intrigues of a provincial town when the king made his entry in the 1820's (the chapter The King in "The Red and the Black," 1830).

   Entry of Charles VII to Toulouse in 1441,  zoom

   Entry of Louis XIV to Toulouse, on October 14, 1659 / zoom (please scroll down)

                                                              Nautical fête after the entry of Henry II, October 1, 1550 / zoom

• In Paris

Entry of Isabeau de Bavière by Jean Fouquet, mid-15th century / zoom

Jousting in Paris at the entry of  Isabelle of Bavaria on 22 August 1389, detail, " Chroniques de Froissart " / zoom (scroll down)

     Entry of Francis I of France and Cardinal Farnese to Paris in 1540 by Taddeo Zuccari, 1559 / zoom

Notice the white horse, symbol of heroism...

   Sketch / zoom

And the nude horseman, symbol of the gods, so of nobility.

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The attempted return to traditional monarchy* after Napoleon's defeat resuscitate the entries for a time:

*The Restauration, 1815-1830

• The visit of the Pope 

Entry of Pope Pius VII to Paris in 1819, Marc Gaillard archive  

• The coronation of Charles X

Entry of Charles X to Paris by the Villette gate after his Coronation by Louis-François Lejeune, 1825 / zoom with analysis.

The parades proclaim 

glory and unity.

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Next,

Marching down rue Saint-Denis