"L'Entrée triomphante de Leurs Majestez", étude d'une relation de fête sur l'entrée royale de 1660
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- On August 26, 1660, Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse made their entrance into Paris after their wedding in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. On their return to the capital, they received a triumph, one of regained peace with Spain. Indeed, the Treaty of the Pyrenees, signed on November 7, 1659, marked the end of twenty-four years of war. If we still have the opportunity today to admire the greatness of this entrance and, more generally, the festivities of the Ancien Régime, it's thanks to richly illustrated accounts carefully preserved, referred to as "festive accounts." These works pursue a triple objective: to announce the program of the celebration, explain its unfolding, and disseminate its narrative. This present paper will focus on one of these festive accounts recounting this entrance, the official book published in 1662. With two years having passed between the progress of the entrance and the publication of the book, the aim is to analyse the way in which the account stages this event of the royal entrance. We will also explore the political and historical stakes that play out in this celebration and how they are expressed in the account, in order to understand what it highlights in comparison to the representations.