Performing Violence

Cross-Confessional Diplomacy: The Parisian Court Festivals of Summer 1572

“…Both deities from classical mythology then began to dance and sing verses which Henry Prunières believes to have been written by centred around the idea of love as the guiding force of human life-'a fitting enough subject' , as Julia Prest writes, for a wedding that was engineered to appease Catholics and Huguenots. 184 In one of the poems by Ronsard that Le Roy and his co-actor may have performed, entitled 'Autre cartel pour l'amour' ('Another cartel for love'), love was associated with the previously discussed world-soul.185 Like the world-soul, Mercury and Cupid identified love in the poem as omnipresent: it determined the actions of all humans and was, as such, superior to, and unfathomable for, mortal beings:…”