Show

Déroulé du spectacle

• In Semblançay, 15 km north of Tours, the great historic fresco of Touraine is presented every summer.
  From the Gallo-Roman period to the French Revolution, in the grounds of the home of Jacques de Beaune, finance superintendent of François 1er, our one-night storytellers, Honoré Pottier and his grandson Benjamin bring the History and Legend of La Source to life.

  

• 1. Professors

  1850, at a time when industrial development is turning the world upside down, two researchers, Doctors Charcellay and Giraudet, find evidence of a distant past and travel backwards.

  

• 2. The Gallo-Romans

  Under the Loire sky, Governor Marcellus receives the centurion Cérialis. Both evoke the benefits of the Roman protectorate which brought peace and prosperity to the Turon country.
  The sweetness of life reigns, cradled by the nearby rustling of the water which supplies the thermal baths of the villa and irrigates the flourishing crops that it dominates…

  

• 3. Foulques Nerra and the Crusades

  At the end of the 10th century, Pope Urban in Tours preached the holy crusade. Processions of pilgrims and troops of Crusaders come to draw their fervor from the pure wave of the source.
  The villains live torn between the fear of God and the fear of the belligerent Foulques Nerra, conqueror of territories, who builds castles and abbeys, goes on crusades, tortures and kills in his path.
  At the twilight of his life, he is seized with remorse and fears God, too…

  

• 4. The medieval scene

  Life has very little importance in the Middle Ages. When death does not lurk near them, nobles and villains need to feast. The court dances in its finery.
  The knights, on their fiery steeds, show bravery during colorful tournaments. Acrobats and jesters enchant the court with their shows. Finally, joy reigns over their present, enjoying these moments…
  The great pestilence will not discriminate between the small and the powerful. The carts pick up the dead of the day, cross the towns and villages to take them to the stake.

  

• 5. The Renaissance

  François I opens France to Italian art.
  The Renaissance combines richness and beauty in all areas of creation.
  Jacques de Beaune, superintendent of finances, gives a big party in his honor within his domain. A basin, a lit mirror of the splendours of the court, collects the water which wells up in the hollow of a rock at the foot of the stately home…

  

• 6. XVIIIe century

  The peddler arrives at Semblançay. He comes from Paris where in the middle of the XVIIIth century, great minds profess new ideas, without complacency for the powerful of the kingdom. Present in their words, the philosophers echo the humblest…

  

• 7. The Revolution

  Long contained, the revolt broke out. The murmur is rumbling and barely nascent, the flow reddened by the blood of the fighting, carries the clamor of a people who rise up to win their freedom.

  

• 8. The Ending !

  The grandfather finishes his story and leads his grandson Benjamin to the source, witness to history, passions, fears and hopes. They go into an imaginary and magical world. Characters from all eras meet those of today in a deluge of music, lights and fire.

  What a show!