Special envoy to Grignan
Like a dazzling welcome speech, in the lavender gray day that drapes the Château de Grignan, the voiceover of François Marthouret rises.
It is a letter from Jean de La Fontaine to his friend François de Maucroix dated August 22, 1661. It puts us in the bath: “
It seems that the Renown Goddess is only made for M. le Superintendant Fouquet.
I will only tell you what happened at Vaux on the 17th of this month: the King, the Queen Mother, Monsieur, Madame, a number of Princes and Lords were there: there was a magnificent supper, an excellent Comedy, a very entertaining Ballet, and a fire (…).
While we were talking about these things, and when we no longer expected anything, we saw in a moment the sky darkened with a terrible cloud of rockets and snakes: should we say darkened or lighted?
It started from the Dome lantern.
It was here that the cloud first broke;
but the storm having ceased, we saw them all...
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