Association Rayonnement du Festival Mission

In 1392, King Charles VI was declared insane, plunging France into a period of turmoil. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, while the Franco-English conflict enjoyed an unexpected respite, the king's repeated absences paved the way for violent power struggles. The kingdom was torn between Armagnacs and Burgundians, and suffered a crushing defeat at Azincourt in 1415, before the crown was transferred to the English. Le Grand Embrasement takes us on a musical journey through these tumultuous times, with compositions by Dufay, Briquet, Cardot and others, played on copies of early instruments and interspersed with texts by chroniclers of the period.

Free admission