Resumen de Habit réel, habit imaginé: La reine de France en majesté, XIVe -début du XVIe siècle
At the late Middle Ages, the ceremonial presentation of the queen, sought by the Valois, was accompanied by the invention of a feminine garment of majesty, invention both real (red coronation dress, dress with fleur-de-lys for the Entrée of Isabeau, and the combination surcoat-coat for funerals) and artistic. The painters imagined a costume distinguishing the queen - and Fouquet played a major role in the creation of this "stage costume" -- which associated a surcoat with an ermine corsage and a skirt with a long train, either in a solid color, or for coronations, covered with fleur-de-lys. The ceremonial reality and the artistic representations thus maintained a permanent dialog, and it is sometimes difficult to know which, between the real costume and the imagined costume, served as a model for the other.
