L'Abolition des Privilèges - Le Royal Velours /Hugues Duchêne - Le Cargo

3 Esplanade Antoine Glémain, Le Cargo, Segré

After Je m’en vais mais l’État demeure, Hugues Duchêne adapts the historical novel by Bertrand Guillot: The Abolition of Privileges. A virtuoso solo led by Maxime Pambet, drawing the audience into the heart of the Estates-General of 1789. It is a chronically deficit State, where the wealthiest escape taxation. A regime at the end of its rope. A people on edge, demanding justice and seeing nothing coming. A country rich but blocked, at the mercy of a capricious climate. Such is France in the summer of 1789. Until one night, in Versailles, everything tilts. This is the Night of August 4…