Can early music be sensual and witty?  This is just one of the burning questions to be explored as we immerse ourselves in more than half a millennium’s worth of the music of France.  In the Middle Ages, it was boldly innovative, pushing restlessly from one style to the next in rapid succession.  In the Renaissance, it held itself aloof from Italian dramatic developments, cultivating instead a unique refinement, subtlety, and wit while celebrating life's pleasures rather than its pains.  During the Baroque, French exceptionalism attained its zenith, the high noon of “Le roi soleil,” gliding into an Arcadia of noble heroes, rustic shepherds, and not-so-innocent nymphs.  Join us this summer at World Fellowship's Arcadia in New Hampshire for a week of our own “grand plaisir.”