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Rousseau in Annecy

Annecy

It is in Annecy, where the catholic bishop of Geneva east taken refuge since the 1536, that Madam de Warens gives up Protestantism, on on September 8th, 1726. It is in this city that Jean-Jacques Rousseau makes her knowledge, in March 1728.

On its return of Turin (where it abjures in its turn), in June 1729, it settles at Madam de Warens and starts to attend the seminar of the lazarists, where it meets the Gaime abbot, who will be one of the models of the Savoyard Vicar.

Especially, Rousseau learns the music near the Master, who directs the control of the cathedral. It leaves Annecy for Freiburg in July 1730. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considers with an immense emotion the place where it met Madam de Warens:

“It was a narrow passage behind its house, between a brook with right hand which separated it from the garden, and the wall of the court on the left, leading by a false door to the church of Cordeliers. Lend to enter this door, Madam de Warens is turned over to my voice. What soothsayers I at this sight! ”.

The Saint-Pierre cathedral

Jean-Jacques Rousseau made her beginnings of musician with the Saint-Pierre cathedral of Annecy. This frontage very influenced by the Rebirth, overcome of a beautiful rosette, is far from evoking today the vault of Franciscan for which it was built in 1535. It is true that little time afterwards, it became the cathedral of loan of the bishop from Geneva taken refuge in Annecy with its chapter.

The interior arises under the aspect of a beautiful vessel of a late Gothic style with three naves of 5 spans. The chorus is made of a polygonal bedside whose decoration dates from the XVIII E century: one will notice the fabric of Mazzola representing the delivery of saint-Pierre and on the right a Deposition allotted to the Carravaggio painter. Set up in cathedral of the Diocese in 1822, it also fulfills the functions of Saint-Pierre parish since 1965.

The gold Baluster

Jean-Jacques Rousseau became acquainted with Madam de Warens on on March 21st, 1728 in a small place located at the NR O 10 of rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this meeting was going to transform her life.

In Confessions (O.C., I, 49), it had expressed the wish that a “gold baluster” marked this place. The small monument was high for the second centenary of the event in 1928. It comprises a basin dug in a niche and surmounted bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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