Les entrées royales en France aux xvi^e-xvii^e siècles Un spectacle de la Parole ?

Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the transformation of the solemn entrance ceremony was provoked by the promotion of sovereign speech from on-high within the traditional discursive mechanisms of urban dialogic ritual. Such subordination led to a visible requalification of its ends and this movement finished by freezing in a Versaillais silence full of duplicitous admiration, installing royal power in the absoluteness of its pretensions.