II.4.1. IF YOU COME WITH LITTLE BOYS (ADAPT TO LITTLE GIRLS)

TAKE THEM ALONG THE MEDIEVAL TRADE ROUTE (rue Saint-Denis: account here)

It passes through the important site for boys' and young men's casual clothes in Europe.

It comes from a cemetery, where everyone came to meet, fight, sell, flirt, party.

  

Tell them about the "Court of Miracles", which you then pass through:  

You will then pass through a neighborhood where lived a witch who sold poisons. 

When it came out that the king's favorite (official girlfriend) had been a client, the scandal shook the kingdom.

 

      Supposed portrait of Madame de Montespan, a famous royal mistress (workshop of Pierre Mignard) / zoom

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You will walk toward an arch of triumph that towers over the route: please click.

 

The king who built the arch was Louis XIV, the Sun King. On his deathbed he said to his heir, 

"My child, you will be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I had for war; try on the contrary, to have peace with your neighbors and to relieve your subjects, which unfortunately I did not do."

Le Roy Soleil by Gustave Toudouze

    By Maurice Leloir, a famous illustrator, in a history book for children of 1931.

That France's most famous king 

was sorry he'd gone to war 

can end the story.

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Next,

II.4.2.

Street art and a true story that becomes a game for kids