From the French court to Scotland and then England, Mary Stuart’s fate spans sixteenth-century Europe. At Hardelot, Dominique Visse and Ensemble Clément Janequin make her story the thread running through a musical journey of French chansons and secular and sacred polyphony, from Janequin to Lassus. 
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A figure as romantic as she is historical, Mary Stuart lies at the heart of this programme devised by Dominique Visse and Ensemble Clément Janequin, performed on 28 June 2013 at the Château d’Hardelot as part of the Midsummer Festival. Queen of Scots almost from birth, raised at the French court, wife of the future François II and then Queen of France before returning to Scotland, she embodies in a single life both the ties and the divisions between France, Scotland and England.
Mary Stuart as a vanishing point
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