10/10/2022
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Flore Balthazar: "Kristina was not queen ... but king of Sweden"<

She was the most powerful woman in the world, free in her body and in her head.Between 1632 and 1654, Kristina tried to convert Sweden to the Enlightenment and laid the foundations of modern feminism.

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Par Daniel Couvreur

Temps de lecture: 4 min

Kristina liked to dress as a man, smoke the pipe, conquer women and refused to marry as having children.Disciple of "I think so I am" from René Descartes, the Queen of Sweden will abdicate by disgust of power, before converting to Catholicism and being welcomed in Rome with pomp by Pope Alexandre VII.His libertine and free-minded personality will deeply mark his time.His life had already inspired theater and cinema.Two Belgian authors, Jean-Luc Cornette and Flore Balthazar, now dedicates a graphic novel adapted from Christine, the Queen Boy, a play from Quebec playwright Michel-Marc Bouchard.

Flore Balthazar: «Kristina n’était pas Reine… mais Roi de Suède»