If the Louvre was told to me…in music(s), on Arte

If Versailles has long crystallized the relationship of the French monarchy to the arts in general and to music in particular, the Louvre has also had its part, in the close relationship that the latter was able to maintain with power.

This is what conductor Sébastien Daucé and his ensemble Correspondances came to recall in a spectacular way in 2015, by resuscitating the legendary

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To discover

• Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection

Ballet that Louis XIV danced in the Salle du Petit Bourbon, in 1653… At the very location of the current colonnade of the Louvre.

After six hours of spectacle, the young monarch, barely 15 years old, appeared there dressed in the finery of the Sun, in order to dissipate the disorder of a night of drunkenness and nightmare.

Thus symbolizing the restoration of royal power after the Fronde.

It was logical that this same Sébastien Daucé serve as a guide in this unprecedented documentary

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An exploration, in less than an hour, of eight hundred years of music, begun with Pérotin and the school of Notre-Dame...

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