The project of the Path of the Wise was born during a session of the Council of Elders formed by 9 women and 9 men aged 60 and over, chosen for their wise experience by the Municipal Councillors. That day, the subject of reflection was the question of how to bring our republican motto “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” to life?
The birth of the Path of the Sages
The idea germinated that sprinkle the city with sentences emanating from famous women and men, globally recognized for their wisdom and their humanism, could challenge the awareness of passers-by Borméens as tourists. In order to justify this bold and innovative project in the eyes of the Mayor and his Municipal Council, the decision was taken to combine this route with historical plaques which were to be installed on the city's emblematic monuments. The members of the Council of Elders then determined the route of this path within the medieval village and worked on the support, texts, images and symbols of these plates.
Le butterfly symbol was chosen because it represents joy, beauty, grace and lightness of being. It refers to the power of personal transformation by its strong power of rebirth. Indeed, before being a butterfly, this insect is first an egg, then it becomes a caterpillar before being a chrysalis and finally a butterfly. Each new step symbolizes a change in life, the let go on what you were to appreciate what you have become. As a symbol of wisdom, This animal is a source of inspiration in life. Under his fragile appearances,
The butterfly has a great strength. Indeed, his life is fleeting (life span of a few days to a few weeks) and yet, it spreads joy and good humor by the grace and beauty of its flight, enjoying every moment that nature offers it. So why not do like the butterfly, to approach with confidence everything that life offers us, good or bad experience, because after all it only lasts a moment. These experiences are not the past the better preparation for the future allowing us to move forward more serenely on the paths of life?
Plato's Biography
Considered the inventor of philosophy, founder of the academy.
Plato was born around 427 BC in a aristocratic family and died around 347 BC. He seems promised in his younger years at a political career, He spent eight years with Socrates. Ecosystem's staff is trip to the mediterranean and meets philosophers and mathematicians. Plato is one of the major philosophers of Western thought and of Greek antiquity in particular. The teaching method which Plato presents as the philosophical legacy of Socrates : the “maieutics” consists in to deliver the minds of their knowledge.
His work, mainly in the form of dialogues, presents itself as a rigorous search for truth, without limitation of domain. His reflection also concerns the policy that on the moral,aesthetic or science. La trust in human capacity de know the reality is what constitutes the unity of Plato's work. Against the sophists, who teach the art of convincing and pleasing, Plato asks the question of true speech. Reality is knowable, man is not limited to his impressions: through what he feels he can have access to a reality that surpasses him. His work is thus oriented in two complementary directions: on the one hand, seek the truth about specific realities (justice, the world, for example); on the other hand, seek to justify the very possibility of knowing the truth.
In Athens he founded a school, the first school of philosophy, in the gardens of Académos: the Academy, according to the Pythagorean model. The influence of the academy is considerable and people from all over the Greek world come to acquire a philosophy there whose avowed aim is political: establish justice.
Gambetta Square, heart of the village
La Place Gambetta is a central place where people gather for play pétanque in the summer and attend concerts by musical groups. Before the war, an operetta inspired by the life of the inhabitants of the commune was performed there. The square is surrounded by hotels where we can sleep and enjoy food, often game brought by hunters. Lively games of pétanque take place on the square, accompanied by a figurative language mixing Provençal and French.
Gambetta Square was carved into the schist of the hill around 1760 and was once the central point where all the access roads to the village converge. During the five days of the festival of the Pentecost In May, Place Gambetta was transformed into “green room”. She's decorated by municipal employees with a green curtain made of Aleppo pines and tricolor flags flying on high masts. People come dance on a floor installed for the occasion, even at night, lit by garlands of bulbs. tangos, waltzes and javas follow one another in front of crowded terraces, offering a little interlude of lightness and carelessness in the daily life marked by hard work in the fields.
Le Progress Bar is a political meeting place where assemblies are held. Its hall can accommodate more than one hundred participants and future voters and all subjects are approached seriously, often giving rise to lively debates, especially when it comes to hunting. In the 40s, the bar owner had made it the main press depot. THEBellevue Hotel gained fame in 1925 after being described in a novel of the former doctor turned novelist, Luc Durtain, under the name from Hotel Beausite. The hotel was already a central point, serving as the arrival point for the famous “Bormes hill climb”, a car racing started in 1908.
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