KIDS RELATE TO TEEN-AGED LOUIS XIII, AND THE DRAMA OF HIS TAKING POWER INTRIGUES THEM*
*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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