Founded in 1643; on the threshold of the reign of Louis XIV; Cire Trudon is the oldest Candlemaker in the world still active today.In a hotel of Havana; under the fixed sun of the Revolution; the fierce and partisan overtones of leather and tobacco meddle with the paneling’s waxen silence. In the cool dimness; fawn grimaces shimmer along with the smoke of cigars and the barrels of guns.