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