Art has always been a powerful indicator of the human capacity to reinvent itself after a crisis. From the European artistic development after the sack of Rome to the breath of jazz emerging from the rubble of the Second World War, a journey into the history of great artistic rebirths.
In seven months he will be of age, officially acceding to the throne on September 7, 1651. But for the moment, on February 9, it is still only a 12-year-old child king who trembles at the bottom of his bed. His eyes are closed but he does not sleep: he pretends. He refrains from shouting, and even from smelling the stinking scent of the guessed shadows around him. The curtains on his bed were drawn aside. Unknown Parisians, men and women massed in crowds, watch him. Will these patibular faces in the light of torches imprison him as if he were just a vulgar hostage? Or, worse, show it off like a puppet, walk it like a relic or a trophy, make fun of it, abuse it, maybe skin it?
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