The project of the Path of the Wise was born during a session of the Council of Elders, made up of 9 women and 9 men aged 60 and over, chosen for their wise experience by the Municipal Councillors. On 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 is 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 is 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?
Aristotle's biography
Ancient Greek philosopher and founder of the Lyceum.
Greek philosopher Born in 384 BC in Stagira (now Stavros), on the shores of the Aegean Sea, Aristotle is one of the four children of Nicomachus, a famous physician, and Phaetis, from a large family of Chalcis. Orphaned at the age of 10 or 12, Aristotle continues his studies and is interested in many disciplines, which requires him to leave for Athens, where he studied for many years with Plato.
Brilliant student, he is fast noticed by the master in person who nicknamed the “reader” or sometimes “intelligence”. Aristotle begins the writing numerous texts such as dialogues on justice, on education, on friendship. He also undertakes important scientific works which will lead to the writing of treatises and courses. Over the years, Aristotle detaches itself little by little teachings of plato and sometimes criticizes his master openly.
The accession of Alexander to the throne of Macedonia and the return of peace between Athens and Pella encourages Aristotle to return to the city he left thirteen years earlier. There found a school , here will compete with the Academy: “the High School”. Aristotle is in the habit of teach lessons while walking in the alleys of the gymnasium gardens and his students take the name of peripatetics, “the walkers”. Among disciplines taught, we find the rhetoric, knowledge and management of public affairs, philosophy, natural history or even physics. Personalized recherches are undertaken in medicine, mathematics, music, botany, cosmology, etc. Aristotle continues his work in biology and develops an effective research method
and rigorous. He advocates the systematic observation of facts before any reflection. He also practices dissections. The numerous researches carried out at the Lycée bring a considerable amount of discoveries and the school library is particularly well supplied. He works on the meaning of being as a being and establishes the foundations of theology in “Metaphysics”, which will remain a reference work for medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought. The philosopher will not neglect politics and morality, where, developing a finalist conception of the essence of the city, he will pronounce himself in favor of the search for a supreme good leading to virtue: Happiness.
But the death of alexander will soon put end to this period of intensive work. His disappearance exacerbates anti-Macedonian feelings and pushes the Athenians to revolt. Aristotle, who did not approve of the actions of his former student, is forced to leave Athens with his family in 323 BC. He took refuge in Chalcis, in his mother's house. Ill, he felt his end was near. He then wrote his will which made Theophrastus his successor as head of the Lyceum. He died in 322 BC, at the age of sixty-two, leaving unfinished some treatises such as “The Generation of Animals”.
The Casino of Liberty and the Cinema
There was like a spirit of taste at the party, in this early 20th century. The France comes out of a deadly war which had mowed down the Bormese youth. Those who had survived were now under the yoke of a global epidemic: the Spanish flu. In this period, everyone is thinking about getting together again, about recreating a conviviality. The flower festival, future Mimosa parade, was born at this time, in this spirit. To find ourselves, we will have need a room, a place of rejoicing: it will be The Liberty Casino.
This room is spacious enough for the village. The floor is made of wooden blades and at the back of the room is a small scene large enough to hold a orchestra of 6 to 8 musicians. On both sides of the dance floor, simple benches or mothers and young girls wait kindly, looking at the crowd. The young people stay in the middle of everyone, even when the orchestra is between two tunes. No tables, no refreshment bar, and as often, we water the floor to prevent dust from invading the space. It's time for polkas and paso doble. It's a unmissable event Sunday, the only day when we don't work.
In 1928, the ballroom became a cinema. For everyone there is a fascination with images who move, the sound, even sizzling, which accompanies them. In thedarkness of the room, everyone, without exception, follows the session in silence, sometimes letting out exclamations of surprise or fear. Here, the film will be proposed “Maurin of the Moors”, filmed in 1934 in the hills near the village, the only venue where it would be obvious to present it. But the WWII arrives, too suddenly, and the party's fanfare gives way to the pounding of the occupants' boots. A period in parentheses, time is suspended.
If you put your ear close to the walls, it is almost certain that you will still hear the laughter of the young girls, the soft steps of the dancers on the floor of the hall, the sighs of the spectators in the dark room.
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