(3/4) Do you know the face of Jean Cottereau, the great lord of Maintenon during the Renaissance?

For several weeks now, our team has been working with a renowned illustrator from the French press to bring his face back to life after more than five centuries of obscurity.

Thanks to known portraits of Jean Cottereau’s grandsons, a painstaking process of comparison was carried out: the shape of the nose, the line of the chin, the position of the ears, the eyes, the forehead…

Little by little, certain common features emerged, allowing us to get a sense of what the Lord of Maintenon might have looked like during the Renaissance.

The final result of this reconstruction will be revealed in the coming days…