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The Royal Entry, also known by various other names, including Triumphal Entry and Joyous Entry, embraced the ceremonial and festivities accompanying a formal entry by a ruler or his representative into a city in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period in Europe. Some historians have pointed out that the royal entry revealed a nascent French nationalism(sentiment national) and a monarchic sentiment(sentiment monarchique). In fact, the entry ceremony called attention to the divinity of the king. In other words, the entry ceremony, like all other royal ceremonials, honored the king and he was the principal actor. On the other hand, the towns and communities that staged, designed, and framed royal entry ceremony have received less attention than the kings. But Royal entry was an interplay between the king and each group. Men expressed their political rules in rituals before they defined them in written theory. Struggles for power or recognition among individuals or parties were acted out in ceremonials which tended to accommodate rather than to accentuate differences. The citizens found the royal entry to be a good place to express their claims. Moreover the royal entry was a device by which the subjects rendered homage to a king who approved their authority and renewed local charters; the citizens promised fidelity in exchange for the king's affirmation of the city's privileges. And they tried to define the duties of the king. In conclusion, the royal entry called attention to the demonstration of reciprocity between the king and city.