Visite chez le prince

The narrator, a weary traveler, walks the altered streets of a Bavarian park that still bears the faint marks of French elegance. Fifteen years have carved strange layers into the landscape—broken porcelain, multilingual birds, and wind‑kissed statues that whisper both Versailles and Munich. He is on a peculiar errand: a lost dog was once delivered to the Prince of Saxe‑Altdorf, and now he bears a stranger instead, a man whose identity seems as tangled as the memories that chase him.

In the princely manor, the royal family appears almost theatrical, their lives a blend of old‑world grandeur and post‑war absurdity. The Prince, keeper of centuries‑old anecdotes, sits beside a somnambulant princess descended from fairy‑tale lineage, while their two sons move through the rooms with a disarming innocence. As the narrator steps into this world, he senses an undercurrent of secrets, a tension between duty and curiosity that promises a delicate dance of revelation and self‑discovery.