The Greatest Thing

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In France's Ancient Regime kings marry for power but take mistresses for love. So revered was the coveted role of mistress to the king the woman chosen was referred to as the king's</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Favorite</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. In 1771 King Louis XVth gifted </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>his</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Favorite the Madame Jeanne du Barry with a black child to serve as her personal servant and page. Years later that child Louis-Benoit Zamor would send the last official French Favorite to her death. </span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Inspired by the true life of Louis-Benoit Zamor.  </em></strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>~~</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His mother told him he was God's greatest thing. Then he was stolen sold shipped to France and re-named Louis-Benoit Zamor. Stripped of his esteem as efficiently as a fox's coat in a royal hunt Zamor is reared by Du Barry-with a love as false as her smile-and a king with unsavory proclivities. He soon realizes his mother lied. Because in this place </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>King Louis XV</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the world's greatest thing second only to God.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But Zamor was loved once. This fact alone makes the bitter pill of a lifetime of small nothingness impossible to swallow. Even if false a mother's words don't die easily.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>First he must survive childhood. Then if the world thinks the debauched degenerate king is its greatest thing the answer is simple: Zamor will have to change the world. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vive le roi</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Long live the King ... </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and all that.</em></p><p><br></p>