Molière month in versailles

Le Grand Meaulnes: Alain-Fournier's novel adapted for the Mois Molière festival in Versailles

Le Grand Meaulnes, adaptation of Alain-Fournier's novel by Emmanuel Besnault and the Compagnie L’Éternel Été, is presented in the Cour de l’Hôtel des Affaires étrangères in Versailles, as part of the Mois Molière, on June 20, 2026. This new production brings to the stage the journey of Augustin Meaulnes, tracing a path from adolescence to the ache of unrequited love and the passage into adulthood.

Terre des hommes: Saint-Exupéry confronts the desert in the Cour de la Grande Écurie for Molière Month

Terre des hommes, an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s work, is staged in the Cour de la Grande Écurie at Versailles on June 17, in a production by Thierry Harcourt featuring Pierre Devaux. The piece traces Saint-Exupéry’s first official flight to Dakar, then a crash in the Sahara, and a fight for survival alongside his mechanic Prévot.

Napoleon: the imperial epic reinterpreted by renowned authors in Versailles

Napoleon, a show adapted and directed by Maxime d’Aboville, is staged in the Cour de la Grande Écurie at Versailles for the Molière Month, on June 15, 2026, with cellist Dima Tsypkin. Drawing on texts by Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and Tolstoy, this production traces the Napoleonic saga through literary narration, historical memory, and the making of a myth.

Bouvard & Pécuchet: Flaubert in a two-hander at the Claude Debussy Auditorium for Molière Month

Bouvard & Pécuchet, an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel, is presented at the Claude Debussy Auditorium in Versailles on June 15 and 16, in a staging by Géraud Bénéch. Headlined by Jean-Paul Farré and Marc Chouppart, the play follows two office workers who set out on a quest for knowledge that is as funny as it is precarious, weaving between encyclopedias, failed experiments, and a satire of the spirit of the system.

Perceval, the Tale of the Grail: a literary and musical stroll at the Potager du Roi for Molière Month

Perceval - the Tale of the Grail, a literary and musical wandering inspired by Chrétien de Troyes, is presented for the Molière Month at the Potager du Roi in Versailles on June 14, 2026, with Stéphanie Tesson and Phénomène et Cie. This narrated and sung stroll revisits the Grail quest outdoors, weaving medieval storytelling, early music, and Arthurian imagination.

Milady in Versailles: The Three Musketeers Reimagined on Stage for Molière Month

Milady, a play by Margaux Wicart freely inspired by The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, is staged in the Cour de la Grande Écurie in Versailles on June 13 and 14, 2026, in a production by Justine Vultaggio with La Compagnie Les Modits for the Mois Molière. The show places Milady de Winter at the heart of a plot woven from humor, cynicism, vengeance and state affairs.

Molière Month in Versailles: Olympe Audouard, a play about a visionary woman of the press — our review

At Molière Month 2026, Olympe Audouard returns to the spotlight in Versailles with a play at the Auditorium Claude Debussy on May 31 and June 26. The show revisits the life of a 19th-century woman of letters—a journalist, traveler and feminist—who defended her ideas through writing and activism. We’ve seen the performance; read our review.

Potager Fantasies during Molière Month: theater takes root in the King's Kitchen Garden

The Garden Fantasies are presented at the King's Garden (Potager du Roi) in Versailles on June 6, 7 and 13, 2026, as part of the Mois Molière’s 30th anniversary. Designed by Stéphanie Tesson with Phénomène et Cie, this theatrical journey gives voice to vegetables, fruits, plants and insects through works by contemporary authors.

Dom Juan at Molière Month: Molière’s classic returns to the stage in Versailles

Don Juan returns to the stage in Versailles, in the Court of the Grand Stables, on June 4 and 5, for the 30th anniversary of Mois Molière. A decade after The Tricks of Scapin, the L’Éternel Été Company revisits Molière with an adaptation faithful to the original text, directed by Emmanuel Besnault.