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An actress reincarnates a queen who remained secret...

and the grace of "La Vieille France"
"Include a glimpse of hermine. Françoise deserves it." - Louis XIV to the painter
"I was born in the prison of Niort..."

By performing a monologue based on the celebrated novel, "The King's Way" (by Françoise Chandeneggor), this widow of a French ambassador, has returned to her love of acting. The one-woman show recalls the astonishing life of a woman who was born in prison, begged in the streets as a child, yet married the Sun King...

 

Then new problems arose.

     

     

    • She receives us in her 18th-century Versailles salon

     

     

    Performance for the Friends of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2002
    Notice the attention of the woman with the camera.

     

     

     

     

    • Costs: please CLICK

     

    Credits: Painting / "Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719)", by Mignard;  Photos / Claude Abron