Bad news, Nicolas Fouquet, the superintendent of Louis XIV, who protected the poet, has just been arrested on the orders of Colbert. Jean de La Fontaine is the only one to defend him, to the chagrin of Marie Héricart, his young wife, and Paul Pellisson, his friend, who fear for his life. A red curtain hides a wooden castle.
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Under the vaults, between the stone walls of the Essaïon, a trio of actors struggles to tell "the very good and fabulous story" of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695). In the play he wrote, plays and directs with modest means, but not without ambition, Thierry Jahn returns to the eventful career of the fabulist.
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In the small room, he cleverly reconstructs the sumptuous feast that Fouquet organized in Vaux-le-Vicomte in honor of the king. Makes the eyes of the protagonists shine, leads the public to follow him in the birthplace of La Fontaine, rue des Cordeliers, in Château-Thierry...
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