In Val-d'Oise, “Extraordinary Walks” or the arts of the beaten track

However scrupulous they may be, the descriptive lines that follow will not, however, correspond exactly to what the public will have the opportunity to discover, Sunday, July 27, in the regional domain of Villarceaux, in the heart of Vexin, in Val-d'Oise. There, as part of the Paris l'été festival – which is therefore expanding its scope for the occasion –, the stations of the Balades extraordinaires will be scattered. An artistic proposal, as much as sporadic, constantly recomposed, which we discovered beforehand, in mid-June, in the vast park of the sprightly Cité internationale de la langue française, in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne).

From Val-d'Oise to Aisne, the title has remained the same. Just as Blaise Merlin, who came up with the idea, is still at the helm. "Over hill and through words, through sounds and through valleys, each Balade is a unique journey to be experienced as a couple, with family, or alone, on the edge of the natural and the supernatural. […] Fabulous artistic and human encounters await you. Not to mention the dryads hidden behind the bushes and other creatures hanging in the trees," the trailer blandly proclaims.

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