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the King of the goods is a tale of Littérature of childhood and of youth writes by Henriette Bichonnier, illustrated by Pierre Elie Ferrier says Pef, published in 1985 in the collection Folio Benjamin of the editions Gallimard.

The hero

King Leon who is so beautiful that it does not support competition as regards beauty. The students in literature for youth saw there a relationship with the malicious queen of White-Snow, which is not completely false.

Characters

the soldiers
the servant Alfred
inhabitants of the country
Epouvantine, the baby

History

King Leon having prohibited by decree that whoever is more beautiful than him, the inhabitants of the kingdom make their possible to be made ugly. So that anybody cannot more allure anybody and than anybody does not marry anybody any more. There are not thus more children in the kingdom. But one day, a man and a woman face the interdict, and from their union is born a baby whom one calls Épouvantine to give pleasure with the king. Unfortunately, the little girl is so pretty that the king orders his setting with death.

Teaching exploitation

the beauty, the ugliness
disguises to change aspect
How the birth of a baby can change the life.

Adaptations

in Ballet, with the choreographers invited within the company Dominique Bagouet: the King of the goods , according to the text of Henriette Bichonnier, choreographic adaptation of Bernard Glandier, 1989, Montpellier. Begun again for the Company Neighborhood of Bernard Glandier, presented in particular with the dancer Agnes de Lagausie for the resumption of the King of the goods in 1991, then with Theater 71 of Malakoff, 1996 - 1997, and in all France and abroad.
in puppets: 1990 with 1993 by the Arketal company of Mougins. Rounds in all France and the festivals for youth.

Internal bonds

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