Lasse Verdure

8 Place John Stewart de Buchan

On June 8, 1876, in the late afternoon, George Sand’s intimates receive a telegram from Maurice, her son, soon to make national headlines: 'My mother is dead.' After ten long days of suffering begins an abundant and eclectic procession of witnesses, each seeking to grasp the event and to become its most legitimate spectator… This reading, conceived as a montage of rare and little-known archives, immerses us in a necrological inquiry close to surrealism. Here, the subtleties of shaping a national event’s narrative are gradually revealed…