Event Maps

Lasse Verdure

Culture · Tuesday, November 3 · 15:00 · Châtillon-sur-Indre

8 Place John Stewart de Buchan

On June 8, 1876, in the late afternoon, George Sand’s inner circle received a telegram from Maurice, her son, soon picked up by the national press: “My mother is dead.” After ten long days of suffering begins a abundant and eclectic procession of witnesses, each seeking to grasp the event and to become the most legitimate spectator… This reading, conceived as a montage of rare and little-known archives, immerses us in a necrological investigation close to surrealism. Here, the subtleties of shaping the narrative of a national event are gradually unfolded…