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An actress reincarnates a queen who remained secret...

and the grace of "La Vieille France"

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•Versailles   •City of kings

Mignard, "Madame de Maintenon" (1635-1719)
"I was born in the prison of Niort..."

By performing a monologue based on the celebrated novel, "The King's Way" (by F. Chandeneggor), this distinguished actress 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

     

     

     

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