Festival LES BAROQUIALES - CONCERT SHOW

Les BaroQuiales festival invites you to discover the concert-show "Toute la tendresse de mon cœur" in the Grand Salon of the Riviera Palace on Friday, July 10, 2026 at 9pm. Oscillating between these different forms, Jeanne Jourquin and Ariane Issartel propose a sensitive journey through Mme de Sévigné's letters. From their vantage point as 21st-century women, they engage in a dialogue with this 17th-century woman, inviting us to encounter a surprising, funny and witty personality. Sévigné is best known for her fervent attachment to her daughter, Mme de Grignan, to whom she wrote unceasingly throughout the time they were separated. This singular maternal tenderness has often been glossed, so much so that it borrows the traits and vocabulary of the most burning passion for love. But this famous tenderness also applies to other areas of life, and is more a question of a certain way of feeling the world. a certain way of sensing the world, with the choice of sensitivity. Jeanne Jourquin and Ariane Issartel invite us to explore this sensibility by offering Sévigné's voice the musical framework in which she wrote: the harpsichord enters into dialogue with the words, bringing us closer to something of the climate that surrounded "la" Sévigné. The harpsichord weaves its voice as close as possible to Sévigné's, sometimes taking on the features of an impossible dialogue - Mme de Grignan's reply, lost to time and circumstance, and missing from the long cry of love that Sévigné seems to launch into the void. Each in her own voice, that of letters and that of music, the two performers give voice to a 17th century full of nuances and chiaroscuro. The language is so powerful that the border with identification is not far off... But the letters will have to be closed like the harpsichord on Sévigné's secrets.