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All the Mornings of the World

It's the latter half of the 17th century. After being absent for some time, the viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe returns home to discover that his wife has passed away. In his state of depression, he constructs a modest home in the backyard, into which he moves and devotes the rest of his life to music and his two young daughters, Madeleine and Toinette, while isolating himself from the rest of the world. The word spreads quickly about him and his music, and it even reaches the court of Louis XIV, who wants Monsieur de Sainte Colombe to play in Lully's orchestra at his court. Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, however, refuses to do so. One day, a young man named Marin Marais comes to see him with a request. He wants to learn how to play the violin, and he wants to take lessons from him.

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