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 L’Abolition des Privilèges by Bertrand Guillot. A virtuosic solo carried by Maxime Pambet, plunging spectators into the heart of the Estates-General of 1789. It is a state in chronic deficit, where the wealthiest dodge taxes. A regime out of breath. A people at the end of their rope, demanding justice and seeing nothing coming. A country rich but blocked, at the mercy of the whims of a deranged climate. Such is France in the summer of 1789. Until, in one night, at Versailles, everything shifts. It is the Night …