Mission Retour Des Naïades

Naiads Escape Life Monthey. September 8, 1790, day of fair. An altercation, yet another injustice. A governor eager for wealth and power. An honest citizen. The spark. Monthey ignites to experience the beginnings of the Bas-Valais Revolution. The people exhausted under the weight of 254 years of injustice and abuse of power but also inspired to have found in the person of “Gros Bellet” a just and charismatic leader, gets the escape from one of the most unworthy governors that knew the lower Valais, State subject of the High. Governor Hildebrandt Schiner leaves town with haste and fright, leaving his wig and hat behind. Humiliated, dispossessed of office, animated by titanic rage and shame, Hildebrandt Schiner vows to avenge his honor and destroy the Montheysan people. The governor’s fierce spirit then inextricably turns to the destructive power of the Vièze… River of the best as of the worst, the Vièze gives a good account of the ambivalence of water. Sometimes beneficial, sometimes evil. Creative and destructive. Since the terrible overflows of 1726 and 1733, the Vièze has been populated with Naiads. These sweet deities, River Nymphs, take care to maintain the serenity of the otherwise raging waters of the river. A decision taken unanimously by the Gods, in addition Poseidon and his Council of 50 Nereides. Hildebrandt Schiner goes to the edge of the Vièze. Pretexting the flight of the sun and the fall of the sky, he begs the Naïade Castalie, to appear to him with the Divine Stained Glass. He hastily steals the object, source of divine energy from the Naiads...