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An actress reincarnates a queen who remained secret...
and the grace of "La Vieille France"
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 - "Include a glimpse of hermine. Françoise deserves it." - Louis XIV to the painter
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 - "I was born in the prison of Niort..."
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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.
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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.
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- She receives us in her 18th-century Versailles salon
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With the Franco-American Cultural Club (that is, with us)
With the Friends of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Credits: Painting / "Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719)", by Mignard; Photos / Claude Abron
 - Unexpected Paris guided tours
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