Mirrors for a Court

Mirrors for a Court is a choral novel whose inception originates from an espionage maneuver: that undertaken by France to extract the secret of mirror manufacturing from the island of Murano. From this point forward, the plot proceeds by interweaving diverse storylines that delineate a polyhedral portrait of the France of Louis XIV. It is a journey wherein politics, wars, diplomacy, and the arts traverse a dark backdrop of corruption and assassinations. This complex reality, in which mirrors serve as a metaphor, projects a manifold gaze upon the spectator, interleaving the reality of France and Western Europe with its reflection through a king, a court, and interests that dominated the second half of the seventeenth century—a bonfire of vanities wherein luxury and manners alternate with abject crimes, representing the obverse and reverse of a mirror that captures the image of the era of the Sun King.