A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.
Marshall Jérémie Boutre
Cabries
the priest
Lezin
Louis
the notary
the man with pigs
Marie
Boutre's dreamed wife
the fisherman
the grieving woman
the captain
the mermaid
Cabries (singing voice)
Narrator (voice)