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?
Marie Curie's biography
Double Nobel Prize winner in physics and chemistry and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Marie Curie, his real name Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, into a family of patriotic teachers and very cultured. TheRussian occupation is becoming more and more common oppressive for the Poles, too Sklodowska family must face financial problems increasingly serious, and Maria's sister and mother die prematurely. This painful childhood gives birth in her to a determination and considerable force. Passionate about science, Maria secretly dreams of a great career in the field. Close to her family, she helps her sister, Bronia, become a doctor in Paris by supporting her as a schoolteacher.
When Bronia gained financial independence, Maria joined her at Paris in 1891 return to the Sorbonne et obtained his physics degree in 1893, then one Bachelor of Mathematics the following year. She meets Pierre Curie, teacher at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris and both married in 1895. Supported by her husband who shares her passion, she continues his studies, is received first in the physics competitive examination.
Henri Becquerel then comes from discover the natural radiation of uranium who will become his thesis subject. It uses for the first time the “radioactive” term to designate it and tries to discover the origin specifies radiation from a uranium-rich ore. Soon, the Curies devoted a large part of their time to their works, in a small hangar barely heated transformed into a laboratory. In 1898, both announced the discovery of two radioactive elements then unknown : polonium and radium. But not havingno subsidy et refusing to file a patent, The couple continued their research under the same difficult conditions. 1903 Marie Curie presents his thesis on radioactive substances and receives, at the same time as her husband and Henri Becquerel, the Nobel Prize in Physics. She's there first woman to receive such an award.
Le April 19, 1906, Pierre Curie dies knocked down by a horse-drawn carriage. Marie Curie was left alone to raise her two daughters, Irene and Eve. A few months after the tragedy, through courage, she takes over her late husband's teaching position at the Sorbonne, becoming the first woman to obtain a chair there. At the same time, she continues his research on radium, for which she obtains 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Marie Curie is the only person to have received this prestigious award twice. In 1914, her desire to dedicate a laboratory to the study of radioactivity is embodied by the foundation of the Radium Institute, then headed the physics and chemistry section. Working in collaboration with Claudius Regaud, Marie Curie especially wanted to put her research in the service of health. It is therefore natural that she organizes, during the First World War world, a radiology department mobile devices to treat the wounded,
to X-rays allowing then toimprove surgical operating conditions. Once the war was over, she works and teaches at the Radium Institute and finished passing on her passion to her eldest daughter, Irène (who in 1935 would also be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frédéric Joliot). She went to New York in 1921, where the journalist Marie Meloney waiting for him to offer, thanks to a female subscription, enough money to buy one gram of uranium : his fame becomes international. Already a member of the Solvay Physics Committee, From 1922, she participated in the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. After having dedicated his whole life to science, Marie Curie died in 1934, following leukemia, which was not unrelated to the handling of radioactive elements.
Thanks to his hard work and his discoveries, Marie Curie made it possible to tremendous scientific advances and remains one of the greatest female figures of the history of science. It is for all these reasons that in 1995, the president François Mitterrand has transferred the remains of Marie (his body retaining traces of radioactivity, his coffin was completed with an insulating layer of lead) and Pierre Curie from their family vault in Sceaux at the Pantheon in Paris. The ceremony took place in the presence of Lech Walesa, then President of Poland.
The well and the mill of La Verne
Le well of the Rescapade, also known as Well of the Verne, is located atwestern end of the village, at the foot of the remains of the 12th century wall which surrounded the village, the protecting so invasions and epidemics various.
It probably was dug at the beginning of the 18th century, at the same time as the other wells in the region for meet the needs of a constantly growing population. À network Immediately adjacent to the well was one of the few open doors in the wall, reduced in size to preserve the integrity of the defensive work. This door opened directly onto the first plots of olive trees below the village. The olive trees were located in the first meters of the slope, arranged in terraces, the famous Provençal “bancaous”. Until the 1970s, before the creation of the adjacent road, this place was a U-turn point to return to rue Carnot, formerly called rue des fours.
It probably was dug at the beginning of the 18th century, at the same time as the other wells in the region for meet the needs of a constantly growing population. À network Immediately adjacent to the well was one of the few open doors in the wall, reduced in size to preserve the integrity of the defensive work. This door opened directly onto the first plots of olive trees below the village. The olive trees were located in the first meters of the slope, arranged in terraces, the famous Provençal “bancaous”. Until the 1970s, before the creation of the adjacent road, this place was a U-turn point to return to rue Carnot, formerly called rue des fours.
In judicious use of space, un small oil mill found in the immediate vicinity of the well. Indeed, the oil production required a large amount of heated water in a chimney. This water was mainly used for wash fruit from the first pressing and to bring the lower quality oil to the surface. Collected using an instrument called "leaf", This oil was intended to be used in the oil lamps or soap making.
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