In addition to two or three embellished rings and pins, the jewelry worn by the Grand Princesse today is only a string of pearls around his neck, but even this expensive string of pearls makes people consciously stay away from the Grand Princess's side - when cultured pearls have not yet appeared, all pearls are naturally generated, and since they are said to be naturally generated, they will inevitably appear flawed, distorted or deformed. For example, the Baroque style, which has recently emerged in architecture and decoration, originally meant to be a misshapen pearl, because it did not meet the aesthetic requirements of absolute symmetry and unity advocated by the classicists.

The bead chains that the lord of the county is wearing now are each the size of a little finger and similar in diameter, smooth and flawless, but compared to pearls, the girl's skin is more delicate and delicate, and you can even see the blue veins under the skin, Frederick stood for a while, and then stepped forward, "Sorry to keep you waiting, Your Highness." ”

"It's me a little early," said the Grand Lord, unconcernedly, "and it feels comfortable to walk all the way here from the Louvre in the morning." She put away the book that lay on her lap, and Frederick hurriedly held it in her hand, while casually glancing at the cover, and saw that it was the Latin version of the Ten Books of Architecture, written by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius. When he held it in his hand, he could feel that there were hard bookmarks in the book, and there were more than one place, and his heart moved, if it was another noble lady, he would have casually asked her when she became interested in such a boring thing.

But in front of the big county lord, he has to be much more cautious.

"That's right. The lord said, "Your Highness, wait, can you call me Lady Mary?"

"Of course," Frederick immediately understood what the Grand Princess's meant, "Then you can also call me Mr. William." ”

The Grand Princesse smiled: "Of course. ”

Although the king entrusted the establishment of the four art academies to him and his brother's four children, not many people knew about it, and those who knew about it knew how to keep silent, let alone take the opportunity to flock to it to flattery him—the king intended to use this event to make the princes and princesses put into practice what they had learned in books, and not to ask you to do it on your behalf.

So not only the Grand Lord, but also the Grand Princess and the Crown Prince, the Duke of Colonna, on the construction site and in the office, were all addressed as Mr. and Madam, and the uninformed only knew that they were of illustrious origin, but they did not know that they were so illustrious that they suffered a small loss because of this, but they were soon recovered, and there was interest, after all, there were still the King and the Duke of Orleans standing behind them.

Since then, at least no one has dared to deceive them in the open, and in the dark—"Even my uncle can't avoid this." The Grand Princesse said.

Frederick swore that he was genuinely surprised: "But your uncle ......" is the Sun King.

"No one but God can control people's hearts. The lord said, "Everyone has their own ideas, even the lowest workers, a big eju can make some people honestly afraid, some people grateful, and some people resentful." This is something she realized only when she went outside the court: "So in many cases, we can only guarantee that most of the time, most of the people benefit." ”

"And what about those who never feel satisfied?"

Then it can only depend on God's will. The Grand Princesse said.

Frederick smiled, he saw that there were always people in black coats around them, "I think God must have many servants willing to do it for him." ”

"There is no doubt about it. The Grand Princess, with a smile, said that the Drama Academy was not far from the square they had agreed upon, and they had only walked for ten minutes before Frederick saw a huge building standing beside a small square— But it wasn't the Dramatic Academy, it was the Paris Opera, which used to be a stinky fish market and tanning workshops, and then because of the Paris rectification, these were all relocated downstream, and a large area was vacated here, and when Louis XIV ordered this place to be retained, people thought that the king intended to build a new palace, but they did not expect that a splendid building did stand on the ground, but it did not belong to the king, it belonged to the people of the whole of Paris and even France.

The drama of this era, in fact, can be said to be the synthesis of sculpture, music, painting and ballet, and the fact that Louis XIV handed over the drama school to the Grand County Lord can be said to be quite eccentric, but it was also exactly what the Grand County Lord needed at that time - the Drama School needed the most coordination and negotiation work, and the people and things involved were the most, and the fact that the Grand County Lord was able to take such decisive measures when dealing with rumors about Carlos II and her was not unrelated to her training during this time.

On one side of the opera house is the Drama Academy, which once belonged to the Duke of Bouillon, but because the Duke of Bouillon was on the opposite side of the king during the Fronde riots, the Duchess of Bouillon has not been allowed to return to Paris or Versailles to this day, so Colbert bought it at an extremely good price.

The building is a true classicist building, with a perfectly symmetrical building in the middle of an elaborate light pavilion that runs up and down, and sunlight can be cast from the glass on the top floor to the center of the hall on the lowest floor, illuminating the marble statue of the sun god and the nine muses.

The hall on the left and right, with glass windows on one side and niches on the other, is oddly the statue of only one inside, although it looks like a Roman from the costume, but, "This seems to be Monsieur Molière?" asked Frederick in surprise.

The Grand Princesse smiled: "Yes, it is my uncle's charter, there are a total of twenty-four niches here, and anyone who has made an outstanding contribution to French theater can have a statue." ”

Frederick noticed the three words of France: "Then it would not be strange," he lamented, "that they would be utterly insane." When he saw the Dutch painter Rembrandt at the French court, he was amazed at how a Dutchman could willingly serve Louis XIV, and now it seems like what a wise choice!

Until now, painters, sculptors, and musicians were still lowly craftsmen in the eyes of the dignitaries, and the most glorious of them were to enter the court and work for the king. If they knew that if you were talented and capable, you would not only be able to get a lot of gold louis in Paris, but also the nobles, and you would be able to show your talent to the fullest—and even spread your name and statue to a hundred years from now...... Looking at the row of golden letters under Molière's statue, Frederick could see a pair of eyes that were red with jealousy.

"Monsieur Molière still insisted on hiding his ashes in the statue after his death. The lord said helplessly, but this must not be, this is not a cemetery, nor a church, so Monsieur Molière changed his course and decided to make a prop out of his skull, the one held by the prince in Hamlet......

"It reminds me of Florence. Frederick said.

"My uncle did intend to recreate the Renaissance splendor in Paris. "The Grand Princess, of course, would have thought that he was talking about a dream in the mouth of others, even the current Grand Duke of Tuscany, and that Louis XIV was a goal that could be achieved step by step.

Frederick felt that Leopold I would be willing to hear this, and although he would be very uncomfortable, it was better for the Sun King to devote himself to art than to military affairs, and even Frederick, he had to admit that his heart was slightly relieved.

At this time, Molière, Racine, and Gourney all came out to greet the arrival of the Grand Lord, who was already in his seventies, and had gone from a lawyer to a dramatist writer, and people thought he was crazy, and only he knew that he lived the life of his dreams every day, without worrying about food and clothing, writing plays, watching plays, communicating with colleagues, and even secretly confiding with each other became an interesting thing - or it was probably because the king strictly forbade them to use too despicable means. His most important task now was to complete a long tome that no longer used the Trinity system, the famous story of the Five Wise Emperors of Rome, and he hoped to take his place in the "temples", as they called those niches.

Needless to say, Molière was tirelessly working on a new play about the prodigal child, although he already had a statue of him in the alcove, and in fact he wanted to write an opera of virtue, but since Louis XIV had seen a short play of the same form and content, he was ordered to continue writing similar works - excessive praise would only embarrass him, extremely embarrassing.

As for Racine, who was born in '39 and is not so eager, he has recently been working on a tragedy based on ancient Greek mythology, hoping to perform it for the king in the theater of the Palace of Versailles.

But today the three of them are here, not for the work of any one of them, but for the sake of de la Fontaine.

La Fontaine was also an interesting man, who, like Gournay, had been a lawyer at the High Court, but he loved to write and was not enthusiastic about the legal profession, and he returned to the countryside during the first Fronde riots, hoping to live in peace, but he lacked talent in investing and trading, and soon broke down and had to return to Paris in search of opportunities.

Well, he found Fouquet.

Fouquet was not bad to La Fontaine, but the problem was that before he could repay the benefactor, Fouquet became the king's prisoner, so this Monsieur de La Fontaine went up with chivalry, and resolutely wrote a letter of appeal and sent it to the Louvre, not knowing that his petition had not even been sent to the king, but was reduced to useless documents by Bontang and thrown into the burning furnace along with the scattered letters of plea.

La Fontaine did not know about it, but he was frightened when he sent the letter, and in his dreams he thought that he had been beheaded by the king, so he fled all the way back to the country, and when the king was in power, he had no food and clothing, and then he returned to Paris, this time he was smart, and only in the salons and theaters, he was talented, and it was not long before Molière took a fancy to him, and Racine became his friend.

The final turning point came when the eldest princess was five or six years old, the king wanted some stories that could be read to children, to be simple, to be beautiful, to be simple, La Fontaine had written a few small fables in the countryside before, because in the countryside, even the priests and squires could not master many words, too much of a tooth to cross-mail him was about to lose the only market, hearing that there was this opportunity, La Fontaine of course did not hesitate to present the three volumes of allegorical poems he had written, and after getting the king's approval, he swore that he would continue to write until death.

La Fontaine came to the School of Drama today because the School of Drama needed his allegorical poems to practice what the students had learned in the course and to use them for exams, after all, it was too unreasonable for students to use four or five hours of performances to complete their homework or exam content again and again, and this kind of scene usually only appeared during the year-end exams.

The Grand Princess's impression of La Fontaine was still very good, his allegorical poems were her bedtime stories every night, and as soon as he saw him, the Grand Princess, he remembered his father, who would sing a lullaby and tell stories for himself every night, and watched her quietly leave the dormitory while she was asleep, and her heart could not help but feel warm - she kindly asked them to get up, and watched a few short performances with the crowd, and the drama school was not long established, but these students were already very similar, and even the Grand Princess, and Frederick beside her, watched with great interest.

"But the last narration is not necessary," the lord of the county said, after reading it, "it is better to let people think for themselves than to stuff heavy truths into their heads." ”

La Fontaine leaned over and said yes, he had embellished what he wanted to say at the end of each story, and at the end of the performance, a narrator would read it out.

"Re-enact the last story, as I said, without the last narration. The lord said, and the people in animal masks took to the stage again.

Although Frederick's eyes were focused on the stage, his mind was on the Grand Commander, he initially thought that the king's appointment of the Grand Princesse and others as directors of the Academy of Arts was just a fictitious title, just a game, and there were other people who really did things, but he didn't expect that the Grand Princess's opinion would really be able to put forward his opinion, and others would be willing to comply.

And this opinion is not untargeted, after the cancellation of the narration, the whole play becomes complete and just right, the original did have a sense of adding to the snake, the audience is all experienced playwrights, of course, will not let go of this subtle but obvious change, suddenly a compliment sounded, La Fontaine also said that he would go back to delete all these truths.

The lord of the Grand Commander hurriedly stopped him, because publications, unlike plays, some people with little imagination may not be able to fully understand the author's intentions.

She was so busy discussing with these playwrights that she forgot that she had a guest by her side.

Frederick didn't mind at all, he just felt that he had opened a jeweled box, which he thought would be enough for him to cherish, and who knew that there were many treasures hidden in it that needed to be explored before they could be seen.