22 mai 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « The Country », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.907
What we seek in Europe is Nature refined and transmuted to art. James’s first contact with the French country—which was also his first real contact with “Europe”—occurred when he was a little over thirteen and travelling with his parents from Lyons to Geneva. As he was ill and had fever he lay stretched in the carriage but from there he could distinguish the landscape quite clearly. Suddenly the street of the little village they were crossing opened on a large spot and the boy saw ruins for t...