Quenelle sauce Nantua is the reason for this Haut-Bugey food fair, not a decorative menu item. The town’s signature dish structures the event through tastings, local specialities and public food ritual, making a regional recipe visible as shared heritage. Its strength is the precision of the subject: Nantua is named through a taste, a place and a culinary practice that visitors can recognize and compare.
Topic: events
Greg Duth: Coquilles
Coquilles puts Greg Duth alone with the room, relying on stage timing and the comic charge of a single performer. The event reads as a direct encounter with current French humour, carried by voice, presence and the title’s crisp intrigue.
Roi de l’Oiseau Archery Final
The Tir de l’Oiseau final is one of the ceremonial anchors of Le Puy-en-Velay’s Roi de l’Oiseau celebrations. The bird-shooting contest turns archery into civic ritual, ending with the crowning of a symbolic king inside the Renaissance fair world. Its value is not only sporting: the final carries local pageantry, public memory and the festival grammar that has made Roi de l’Oiseau a signature Velay tradition.
Vogue d’Aurel: Village Fair
Vogue d’Aurel belongs to the older village-fair tradition of the Drome, where games, meals and dancing make the village square the centre of social life. Petanque and boules lyonnaises give the day a local sporting vocabulary, while communal food and evening dance keep the gathering rooted in rural sociability. The event reads as a small but genuine expression of how a commune marks itself in public.
La Chieuse et le Couillon in Clermont
La Chieuse et le Couillon is a comedy of manners driven by the collision between urban control and campground informality. Alexandra Cholton and Philippe Souverville carry a story built on culture shock, tenderness and social absurdity, with the holiday setting used as a pressure point for the jokes.
On ne divorce plus in Clermont
On ne divorce plus puts Alexandra Cholton and Philippe Souverville at the centre of a tight stage comedy. The appeal rests on live timing, conflict and the performers’ chemistry, with the title itself pointing to a couple pushed into comic tension.
Tous les volcans du monde
Tous les volcans du monde turns the Haute-Loire landscape into a field lesson on volcanoes. Led by Frederic Andre, the outing makes geology readable directly through the terrain, with enough clarity for families and curious walkers.
Rencontres Trad’à Nedde: Live Repertoire
Dance gives Rencontres Trad’à Nedde its subject, with Nedde giving the visit its place. Nedde sees live music and dance gathered into one programme. The attraction is hearing the programme in the place that gives it context. It keeps attention on dance, with Nedde present in the experience.
Village des Sciences: Les plantes qui nous nourrissent
At Boulevard de la Mer in Hendaye, Village des Sciences – Causerie “Les plantes qui nous nourrissent” presents local landscape through a workshop. For families and children ages 6 and up. With Jeanette Breton / KANPOAN NATURE+CULTURE An incredible variety of plants graces our plates throughout the year. The outing gives natural heritage a practical form through observation, explanation and place.