Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz wrote La Grande Guerre du Sondrebond in 1906. In free verse, the writer from the canton of Vaud recounts an episode that took place in Switzerland during a conflict between seven Catholic cantons and the troops of the Swiss Confederation in November 1847. It was the country's most recent civil war. The Catholic cantons, grouped together in a league - the Sonderbund - rose up against the Swiss radicals' desire to close the convents and ban the Jesuits. For the majority of the Federal Diet, the aim was to deconfessionalize school education and limit the influence of the Catholic Church on the lives of its citizens. The war lasts three weeks. It claimed 100 lives. The Catholic cantons were defeated.
Ramuz portrays Jean-Daniel, a Vaud conscript in the Confederate army, recounting his memories of a victorious campaign against Fribourg troops sixty years earlier.
Accordionist Laure-Lyne Richard and actor Vincent Aubert interpret this Great War at the MIR, a fitting venue to recall one of the many episodes in the conflicts between Protestants and Catholics in Switzerland. But here, transcended by the poetry of the writer, the melodies of the artist and the inspiration of the actor.