Hissing with admiration, hand on hip, Charles Quint had let go in front of these stones having
“
seen nothing so beautiful
”
.
Stéphane Bern
and Lorànt Deutsch, who go in blue jeans to the majestic Château de Chambord five centuries after the sovereign of the Holy Empire, are at least as impressed.
They will also be so by the other jewels put on their program.
The two acolytes, whose taste for history and talent for telling it cannot be questioned, are interested in the French Renaissance.
By brushing, it was expected, the portrait of its great stars, from Christopher Columbus to
Leonardo da Vinci
.
Conclusion, this revision is not unpleasant.
The unfinished domain
The viewer takes a long walk along the banks of the Loire, then heads towards Paris.
Did you know that the column adjoining the Bourse de Commerce, now taken over by François Pinault, is the remnant of a palace of Catherine de Medici?
The show, visibly proud of its 3D technology, multiplies historical re-enactments.
Castles come out of the ground with a crash, without a wick of Stéphane Bern moving.
Not useless to imagine what must have been the domain of Romorantin, great project of
François
Ier
, eager to build an ideal city, which never saw the light of day.
We only have to skip the painful first minutes of the show, when
Lorànt Deutsch
, who was an actor before becoming a juggler, pretends to flirt with the Mona Lisa during a skit...