The County of Forez in the time of Francis I
At the beginning of the 16th century, an Italian painter is passing through Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, a town renowned for its architecture but also for the teaching of music by the priests of its collegiate church. Under the guise of an excessive thirst for knowledge, it would seem that the exotic traveller is pursuing some very strange designs…
Madame de Vinols, a particularly eccentric wealthy burgher of Saint-Bonnet, will take pleasure in revealing the subtleties of the town to him, under the disapproving eye of her servant, the very gruff Marthe!
