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  • Les marchés au Clair de Lune in Foucherans: Local Delights

    At Les marchés au Clair de Lune in Foucherans, producer stalls share the night market with craft sellers. Fruit and vegetable vendors stand alongside food stalls serving barbecue, chips, hot dogs and other snacks. A refreshment bar with draught beer provides drinks to accompany the food available at the market.

  • Résonance Exhibition in Saint-Claude: Artistic Connections

    Résonance places works from the Frac Franche-Comté alongside the collections of the Musée de l’Abbaye in Saint-Claude. Paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings connect artists including Picasso and Braque with Djamel Tatah, Silvia Bächli and Xavier Veilhan. A dedicated display explores Josette Coras’s engravings, drawings and paintings inspired by the landscapes and heritage of the Jura.

  • Marché bio de Tarragnoz in Besançon: Organic Market

    Marché bio de Tarragnoz is Besançon’s only weekly farmers’ market devoted entirely to organic produce. It is organised by the Village Tarragnoz association, which brings local residents together with organic producers from the area. The association also runs a wider programme of events alongside its market activity.

  • Ribesthèque in Nuits-Saint-Georges: Liqueur Tasting

    Fruirouge’s Ribesthèque centres on Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne IGP Bio en Sélection Parcellaire, an organic blackcurrant liqueur made with fruit from selected plots. The Olivier family presents rare cuvées from its collection in a historic cellar. Tasting across vintages explores the liqueur’s concentration and the character of its terroir.

  • George Sand Conference in Nohant-Vic: Editorial Freedom

    Pascal-Henri Poiget examines George Sand’s relationships with publishers and the press in L’écriture de l’indépendance at Nohant-Vic. Sophie Tellier reads passages from the writer’s correspondence. The lecture considers how Sand’s choices shaped her professional independence and her position within the literary world.

  • Sand Flaubert Conference in Saint-Palais: Literary Dialogue

    Sand Flaubert, une amitié féconde enters the private and intellectual dialogue between two major writers through a lecture-reading by Georges Buisson. Their letters carry literary debate, personal confidences and sincere tenderness, revealing a relationship sustained despite markedly different temperaments. Sand, the celebrated writer rooted at Nohant, and Flaubert, associated with Croisset, tested ideas against one another while maintaining a deep mutual regard. Buisson’s adapted presentation allows the correspondence to speak with dramatic immediacy without losing its historical texture. In Saint-Palais, the reading connects this wide literary exchange to Berry and to Sand’s lived geography. What emerges is not a sequence of biographical facts but a friendship built in language, where criticism, humour and care illuminate how two writers thought about art, work and one another.

  • George Sand Exhibition in Lignières: A Local Tribute

    Local artists, residents and associations contribute objects, paintings and photographs to this George Sand exhibition in Lignières. Documents and loans from the community place the writer alongside Berry’s everyday heritage. The display brings together artistic responses and historical material from the territory associated with her rural novels.

  • Nohant Festival Chopin Concert in Mézières-en-Brenne: Piano

    Pianist Dmytro Semykras performs at the collegiate church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Mézières-en-Brenne. His recital includes Scarlatti, Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Scriabin. The concert belongs to the Nohant Festival Chopin’s Hors les murs programme, which takes young pianists into venues beyond the festival’s home at Nohant.

  • Soirées légendaires Night Market in Montrésor: Local Crafts

    Soirées légendaires brings local artisans and producers together for a night market in Montrésor. Musical entertainment accompanies the stalls, while storytellers recount legends associated with the village. Refreshments and snacks are available, combining craft shopping, food and oral storytelling in the Touraine village.

  • Festival de Chambord 2026

    The Festival de Chambord brings a programme of classical and contemporary music to the Château de Chambord. Repertoire from different periods shares the bill in the festival’s fifteenth edition. The château provides the concert setting, linking live performance with one of the Loire Valley’s major architectural sites.