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?
Simone Veil's biography
Survivor of deportation, icon of the fight for women's rights, Minister of Health, Minister of State, President of the European Parliament, immortal at the Académie Française.
Simone Jacob, born July 1, 1927 in Nice in a Jewish family, is the youngest of four children. 1er March 1944, the day after the baccalaureate exams, she is arrested by the Gestapo and is deported to Auschwitz with her mother and older sister Madeleine. That same night, the registration number 78651 was tattooed on her arm (a number that she would have engraved on her academic sword in 2010). She would lose her mother, father and brother in the Holocaust camps.
Back in Paris in May 1945, she learned that she had been passed the baccalaureate exams and registers for the Faculty of Law and the new Institute of Political Studies. This is where she meets Antoine Veil, with whom she getting married October 16, 1946 and they will have 3 wires. From 1957 to 1964, she was permanent attaché at the Prison Administration Directorate where she will fight for theimprovement of the fate of prisoners. She is then assigned to the Civil Affairs Directorate, she writes the adoption bill. In 1969 she became technical advisor in the office of René Pleven, Minister of Justice. In 1970, she was appointed Secretary General of the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) by President Pompidou (first woman to hold this position). De 1974 to 1979, Simone Veil is appointed Minister of Health following the election of Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing to the presidency of the Republic where she is the the only female minister in this government. Le 17th January 1975, Veil law authorizing voluntary termination of pregnancy is promulgated. His 40-minute text, after a heated debate in the National Assembly, will shake up French society and make it enter into History. law is voted on provisionally for a period of 5 years and will be renewed in 1979. She's Elected President of the European Parliament on 17 July 1979 until January 1982. She continued her involvement in European political life, heading the Parliament's legal service until 1993. 1993 she becomes first female Minister of State at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs within the government of Edouard Balladur.
In 1997, she was elected President of the High Council for Integration under the government of Alain Juppé and will work on the equal opportunity issues. From 1998 to 2007, she ended her career at Constitutional Council. From 2000 to 2007, she also ensured the presidency of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. In 2008 she was elected to the Académie française in seat number 13 (which was that of Paul Claudel, Pierre Loti, Pierre Messmer and Jean Racine). 2012 François Hollande, President of the Republic, presents him with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. After death of her husband and sister in 2013, Simone Veil withdraws from public life, and died at his Parisian home on Place Vauban on June 30, 2017, a few days before his 90th birthday.e birthday. The 1st July 2018 mark theentrance to the Pantheon by Simone Veil. The March 8, 2019, Emmanuel Macron presents the first “Simone Veil Prize of the French Republic” in order to reward “actions worldwide in favor of women’s rights” and endowed with 100 euros.
The remains of the ramparts
From 5th century BC,settlement of Celtic and Ligurian tribes in Provence favored the development of trade and prosperity in the region. However, this wealth has also attracted the lust of pirates and privateers coming from the coasts of Türkiye and North Africa. maritime attacks were frequent, aiming to seize the goods, ships and capture the crew to sell them as slaves. Hundreds of thousands of Provençals, Italians and Spaniards were thus abducted and sold for centuries. Due to these risks, the coastal villages were abandoned et moved to higher ground, offering a better monitoring of maritime entries, an assessment of potential hazards and a preparation for defense. Some communities built defensive walls surrounding inhabited areas to protect themselves from invasions.
À Bormes, the first inhabitants were settled in height around the 9th century and had to organize their own defense against Saracen incursions. Although the Counts of Provence had driven the Saracens out of the Moorish hills, they still posed a threat to merchant ships. Between 1167 and 1196, a protective enclosure was built in Bormes, measuring 6 to 8 meters in height and 1,30 meters thick. It was composite mainly from local stones extracted from shale quarries. Limited openings were present to avoid compromising the defense. doors were judiciously placed at the village's historic access points and were often kept during times of invasion or epidemic. Some remains of this enclosure still exist in the village, mainly on the northern edge of rue Carnot. section of wall before Saint-Trophyme Church bears witness to the old entrance gate, with stones dating from the 12th century, recalling a troubled period of invasions when the population found refuge behind these fortifications.
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