I wanted to make a little illustration of the king's surrounding back in 1650. Why that year specifically, for two reasons: for one, multiple actors who would become important in the royal family's surroundings started appearing, like the Mancini and the Lorraines, and secondly, it was a very unique time in that it was right in the middle of the Fronde, and the life at Palais-Royal was quite different than what had come before or would come after; more familial, far more feminine, and quite fun overall, despite the climate of adversity and chaos reigning on the capital.