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dimanche 15 avril 2018

Michelet dares to challenge the light of the sun

Here the great French essayist and author Jules Michelet dares to challenge  the light of the sun ( from the book La montagne)



On the right, wooded hills seem to be the first step of an amphitheater ... yet behind, at a distance, dominates, with an enormous height, the snowy, the dome dome.
It is not necessary to arrive by those rare summer days which deceive on all countries, which bind everything, give to all a uniform smile. The brilliant phantasmagoria of the accidents of the light would enliven even the tombs. The sun is a big liar: photography proves that..
It will give the same good figure to the coldest valley, the poorest of Savoy, to the hot folds of Valais, which are already an Italy