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Before I went to France, my intentions were romantic, beautiful, refined, and thoughtful. But when I really arrived in France, what I saw and heard made me think that the original idea was plausible. So I visited France again and again, seizing every possible opportunity, and my understanding of France became clearer and clearer, as if an early morning mist had finally faded before my eyes.
Rousseau's emotional land
Annecy
An an hour or so by train from Grenoble to Annecy, which is close to the Swiss border, is more Swiss than French and is considered the most Swiss French city.
Annecy is famous because of the French Enlightenment writer Jean Rousseau. On Easter Day, 21 March 1728, Rousseau, who had wandered from his native Geneva to Annecy, met a young young woman, Madame Warren, who was 28 years old and Rousseau was only 16 years old.
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Rousseau describes the first meeting in a romantic tone in his Confessions: "What I saw was a face full of charm, a pair of tender and beautiful blue eyes, and a radiant complexion. The breathtaking outline of her breasts—I, a young believer who was new to the religion, saw her completely at a glance. I was immediately captured by her. Then, In Madame Warren's reply, "Oh, child," Rousseau recalled: "Her voice makes me shudder." ”
The "celestial immortal" who had charmed Rousseau lived in a luxurious house in Annecy, was protected by the bishop, and her task was to convert people to Catholicism, and she was paid, and Rousseau's conversion gave her ten Ecumens. Mrs. Warren is by nature and has a large number of lovers. Rousseau soon left Annecy.
A year later, he was reunited with Mrs. Warren in Annecy, who called him "child" and he called her "mother." Then Rousseau spent nearly two more years in Annecy, having a pleasant and happy life. On the "Way of Rousseau" in what is now Annecy, there is also the Church of St. Pierre, where Rousseau lived, the seminary of the missionaries and the choir where music was studied.
In the autumn of 1733, in Chambéry, near Grenoble, Rousseau became Madame Warren's lover and lived together for six years. Here Rousseau completed the necessary preparations to become a master of Enlightenment.
Thirty years later ( 1768 ) , Rousseau returned to the tomb of Madame Dei Veron of Grenoble to mourn. In his final memoir, The Reverie of a Lonely Walker, Rousseau recalls Madame Warren in loving words: "In 4 or 5 years he enjoyed a century of life and pure and perfect happiness..."
On the shores of the lake in Annecy, facing the Alps, black swans swam slowly, and I remembered these "emotional readings" I had read twenty years ago. Life is really a bit impermanent.
A paradise for the disabled
Soon after we arrived in Grenoble, we found that there were particularly many disabled people on the road, which obviously did not match common sense. Shocked, we quietly studied the causes, and the results were broadly divided into three categories:
First, this is the Alpine climbing ground, are many people disabled? But if so, who would dare to climb a mountain? Especially after we have been to Mont Blanc, we think this is pure speculation.
Second, there was a big earthquake here.
Third, there has been a major epidemic here.
However, in the many local introductions we have read, there is no mention of any catastrophe. Grenoble, the site of the 1968 Winter Olympics, will not be overlooked by the world media.
What the great tragedy happened? For a few days, when we mentioned this, everyone's face looked very heavy. Later, we couldn't help but ask a very kind old French man what had happened here. The old man naturally replied that Grenoble has preferential policies for the disabled, so it has attracted so many disabled people to come to the local area.
After hearing this, we were all stupid. I believe that mayors across China think every day about how to attract the rich and the rich with various offers, but they don't think like Grenoble. This is normal, and under the pressure of the GDP growth task, it is unreasonable to make such a consideration. But if GDP grows rapidly and people's lives are neglected, the dignity of the country will not be preserved for long. In this sense, Jullien's descendants were happy.
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