I once sat bought tickets for a son-et-lumiere (well, an indoor son-et-lumiere) in the Nimes Maison Caree: a kind of dramatised presentation of the history of what was then Languedoc-Roussillon but is now Occitanie, projections on a screen, light show, a but of 3D. It was fairly well done: a little dramatised scene of Roman Gaul, actors giving it their all; then a scene of medieval France; then the revolution 1789; then late 19th-century silk weavers; then … straight into 21st-century France. Nothing on the whole Vichy France Nazi alignment mid-20thC French history stuff: such was not part of the narrative. Not to dunk, it was a well done presentation. But … well.
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Adam Roberts 11.04.24 at 6:56 pm
I once sat bought tickets for a son-et-lumiere (well, an indoor son-et-lumiere) in the Nimes Maison Caree: a kind of dramatised presentation of the history of what was then Languedoc-Roussillon but is now Occitanie, projections on a screen, light show, a but of 3D. It was fairly well done: a little dramatised scene of Roman Gaul, actors giving it their all; then a scene of medieval France; then the revolution 1789; then late 19th-century silk weavers; then … straight into 21st-century France. Nothing on the whole Vichy France Nazi alignment mid-20thC French history stuff: such was not part of the narrative. Not to dunk, it was a well done presentation. But … well.