La fée aux gros yeux

La fée aux gros yeux is a musical reading drawn from George Sand’s Contes d’une grand-mère, written to entertain and educate her granddaughters. These tales imagine nature as a world alive with voices: clouds sing, frogs and flowers converse, and even paintings or statues can awaken. Stories including Le Nuage rose, La Reine Coax and Le Château de Pictordu place children at the centre because they remain able to perceive what adults overlook. Music gives the transformations rhythm and atmosphere while the spoken text keeps Sand’s language and storytelling clear. At the Beaulieu library in Châteauroux, the family format suits a collection built around curiosity, learning and wonder. The performance reveals how ecological attention, fantasy and moral imagination coexist in one of the writer’s final published works.