As if to say: the choice is yours to live like this for the rest of your life or to support my projects.
But if the king was obstinate, the prince was no less so and he had immediately decided that he would that same day openly disobey the decree, to appear at court with or without the king's permission.
Let them try to stop him!
The next morning, he had a horse prepared with the firm intention of going to the city.
The king's guards blocked him and he, furious, struck one with his sword. However, he had to consent to their escorting him, like a miserable prisoner led to the gallows.
Except he felt his soul to be agitated by feelings very different than those felt by a condemned man.
Arriving at the palace he did not wait to be announced to the king who at that time was at lunch with
