Friday, September 28, 2018

KIDS RELATE TO THE TROUBLES OF A TEEN-AGED KING...


AND HIS COUP D'ETAT INTRIGUES THEM*

*For how Louis XIII came to power, please click Fatal passion at the Louvre
 
Maurice Leloir in Richelieu by Théodore Cahu, 1901, a history of France for children

The court ignores him and he pretends to be retarded...

He threatens to shoot his toy cannon at ladies-in-waiting.


But a few allies know differently and when he is 15, help him put through a coup d'état:

   "At last I am king!" he cries from a palace window. 

Louis has left signs so that his followers can join him at the castle where he hides. 

The children look for them. 

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