Guillaume Du Fay is one of the great representatives of French musical genius. His imposing work achieves a dazzling apotheosis of the Middle Ages. In addition to impressive motets and masses, the Cambrésian master wrote more than 80 secular songs during his long life, veritable gems of melodic, rhythmic and poetic inventiveness. These masterpieces demonstrate an extreme refinement and an extraordinary science of counterpoint, in the various forms of the rondeau, the ballade, the bergerette or the chanson-motet, while privileging, in the amazing expression, simplicity and naturalness. Graceful lightness, joy, invitation to optimism, restrained amorous joy characterize most of these songs; others giving way to melancholy and more serious feelings.