Celebrations of the Jesuit College of Paris for the Birth of Louis XIV (1638)
(2012) congrès annuel de la Renaissance Society of America — Location: Washington DC (22.March.2012)
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- (en) I will first propose a reconstruction of the practical aspects of the multimedia festival (combining theater, music, dance, firework ) that was organized by the Collège de Clermont on 7 September 1638, only two days after the birth of Louis XIV. To this aim, several sources are available, including Jesuit and non-Jesuit reports of the event. I will then explore the potentialities of meaning linked to the allegorical figures that were staged on that occasion by confronting them to the contemporary genethliac production (poems and speeches, mainly in Latin, celebrating the birth of the French Dauphin – some of them stemming from the same Jesuit Parisian College).
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Smeesters, A. (2012). Celebrations of the Jesuit College of Paris for the Birth of Louis XIV (1638). congrès annuel de la Renaissance Society of America, Washington DC. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/66384