A perched synclinal feature over 1000 metres in height, a forest with way-marked paths, a music-loving village. In July, Saou echoes to symphonies, sonatas and other concertos by the Austrian Virtuoso.

The summer opens to the rhythm of jazz, son et lumière enhance the surrealist work of the postman Cheval, and add another dimension to the spell-binding palace made of dreams come true…

The Marquise de Sévigné's nephew once retained an ensemble of musicians and singers, put on operas at the château and sometimes played host to a troop of wandering players. The mood has not changed in the intervening years. Each summer, Grignan takes a step back in time.

Stories told by a story teller. Here there is no artifice or costume. Light provides the right ambience to accompany an African tale, a Danish story or a French text. Sometimes there is a little background music. Let yourself be carried away by strolling players’ tales.

Above, an illuminated tower. Below, voices of black Americans. At Crest in August, the tower becomes a flagon, vocal jazz provides the inebriation; the event is of international renown.