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 These experiences are not the past the better preparation for the future allowing us to move forward more serenely on the paths of life?
The biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer, poet, aviator and reporter, voice of the resistance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon on June 29, 1900. He disappears at sea with his plane, un Lockheed P-38 Lightning, during a reconnaissance flight for the Allied forces on July 31, 1944 at off the coast of Marseille. It is declared “died for France”.
Born in a family of the French nobility, He had a happy childhood despite the premature deaths of his father and a brother. Dreamer student He obtained his baccalaureate in 1917. He moved towards fine arts and architecture. becoming pilot during his military service in 1922, he is hired by the Latécoère company future airmail and transports mail from Toulouse to Senegal. At the same time, he becomes a writer (first novels: southern mail, night flight).
Le Petit Prince (1945) et Land of men (1939, Grand Prize of the French Academy) two of his remain greatest literary successes. A pioneer of airmail aviation, he met Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet there. From 1932 Saint Exupéry devoted to journalism and air raids. Il undertakes major reporting in Indochina, in Moscow, in Spain which will nourish his reflection on his humanist values. 1939 il serves in the air force, being assigned to a reconnaissance squadron. After the armistice of June 1940, he leaves France for New York with the aim of bringing the United States into the war and becomes one of the voices of resistance. Dreaming of action, he finally joined, in the spring of 1944,
a unit responsible for photographic reconnaissance in preparation for the landing in Provence. THE 3 September 2003, parts of his aircraft as well as a bracelet with his name on it are found and formally identified off the coast of Marseille. Le Petit Prince, written in New York during World War II and illustrated with his own watercolors, is published in 1943 in New York and in France at Gallimard in 1946, posthumously. It is his most famous work is a poetic and philosophical tale. The narrator is an aviator who has broken down in the Sahara: he will meet a little prince who questions the absurdity of the adult world.
Si his life as his activity writer's careers were short-lived, they continue to move by their dramatic and epic character. His stories, based on the author's personal observations and experiences, also invite the reader to reflect on the meaning of human action and duty.
The bandstand
In 1948, the request of the musical group La Renaissance is simple: you need a space dedicated to musical performances and arranged for this purpose! Request that the Council approve, with the sole reservation that it will be necessary not to cut the sidewalk, by a staircase providing access to the rotunda. It is on the roof terrace of the small PLM (Paris Lyon Méditerranée) bus office, that we naturally install this small rotunda where the group formed in 1909 will perform very quickly.
Although not designed for this purpose, the place is regularly used by a few musical groups, for the walker's rest, or for essential talks, essential moments of exchange of information, or of various rumors, for the villagers. The position is central, on themain access artery and village trade.
The Borméen musical group, the Renaissance, has gained groundmagnitude. In 1920, there were already more than 30 musicians various, and the kiosk can no longer contain the entire group, who will prefer the different squares of the village, favoring Place Gambetta. The group has grown. The same is true of the main event of the year in the village: the flower festival, the future Mimosa ParadeSince then, the kiosk has been the silent witness to the confidences of thousands of people and the photographic representation of its canopy of bougainvillea, has been around the world.
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