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In the 16th century, the French King, who almost never wore the regalia and the royal clothing after his coronation, lived surrounded by various sorts of vestimentary doubles. On the occasion of Entrees, all along his way, he went past representations of himself, dressed in royal clothing. They delivered the messages to him that the urban elites wished to communicate to him, even as in the cortege, he was accompanied by doubles dressed in his image. In various circumstances of court life, whether tournaments, masquerades, pilgrimages or grand ceremonies, the young people who gravitated around him and formed the inner circle of his favorites, dressed and groomed like him, thus forming, in some ways, the satellites of his magnificence. This usage, partially medieval and chivalrous, was renewed by the Neo-Platonist vogue that developed at the time of the Wars of Religion.
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