Many Napoleonic Figure Pictures (Part 2/?)

On Friday the 7th instant the King [Henry VIII] left Greenwich and crossed to Calais. It is said he goes to terminate the divorce, and espouse Marchioness Anne [Boleyn]; but one of the doctors who wrote in favour of his Majesty, declares that he will take for wife the daughter of the most Christian King [Madeleine of Valois, daughter of François I of France], and give the Marchioness [Anne Boleyn] in marriage in France, so as to unite himself with the Pope [Clement VII] and satisfy the Emperor [Charles V]; and for this purpose the Bishop of Langres [Claude de Longwy de Givry], who had been to the Emperor, came hither. 

Henry VIII - King of England

From the end of Francis I's reign, the lever had consisted of three stages. First, when the king 'prenait sa chemise' ('took his shirt'), at which point the great nobles entered the room. Next, when the king attended 'aux affaires' ('to affairs of state'), all those who were not members of his council would leave the room (or were meant to do so). Finally, when the king 'était prest a sortir' ('was ready to go out') in order to attend Mass, those who had been excluded from the council meeting would return to the chamber in order to provide the king with a fitting escort. In 1578, the ceremony became more complicated when a further stage was added. After the taking of the shirt (Act I) and the affairs of state (Act II), the king remained in his cabinet (closet) and asked for his collation (light repast), which brought a group of people into the room (Act III) before he returned to his chambre (chamber) (Act IV) to ask or his cape and sword, a cue which occasioned a last move on the part of the courtiers. This move took place not only in the chambre (chamber), but also -- and this is the novelty -- in the antechamber. Here, we can see the beginnings of the curious ballet of courtiers which was to become one of the features of etiquette at Versailles: the successive entrées (entrances) to the king's lever.