The division between the ruler’s private and his corporate 
Dignity, elaborated by Italian jurists for centuries, flourished in 
France, also. Kantorowicz quotes (p. 422) a French lawyer, 
Pierre Grégoire, in the later sixteenth century, writing (as if he 
were commenting of King Lear ): “The Majesty of God appears 
in the Prince externally , for the utility of the subjects; but 
internally  there remains what is human.” And the great English 
jurist Coke observed that the mortal king was God-made, but 
the immortal King man-made.

          Actually, the importance of the king’s effigy in the 
     funerary rites of the sixteenth century soon matched or 
     even eclipsed that of the dead body itself. Noticeable as 
     early as 1498, at the funeral of Charles VIII, and fully 
     developed in 1547, at the rites held for Francis I, the 
     display of the effigy was connected successively with the