Rue Saint-Denis: account here
That France's most famous king (Louis XIV, the Sun King) was sorry he'd gone to war is a way to end the story.
Chosen for boys because it passes next to Europe's most important site for boys' and young men's casual clothes:
It comes from a cemetery, where everyone came to meet, fight, sell, flirt, party.
Tell them about the "Court of Miracles" next to it.
You will walk toward an arch of triumph that towers over the route: the link takes you to its story.
That France's most famous king (Louis XIV, the Sun King) was sorry he'd gone to war is a way to end the story.
'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.' "
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The arc is a few steps away from
where lived a witch,
who destabilized the Sun King's court.
For the story please click here,
and for the background here.
Show them the pictures.
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