A Chair by the Seine: Four Hundred Years in France
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The French Academy on the banks of the Seine is the highest honorary institution for French intellectuals. The 40 academicians are all lifelong and have their own seats. Only after the death of an academician can a successor be elected. After being elected as the owner of Seat No. 29, The writer Amin Malouf traces the life adventures of the 18 former academicians since the founding of the Academy in 1634, allowing readers to immerse themselves in France's four-hundred-year history under the guidance of the academician's "guide": this chair once sat the chief minister of the Louis XV era, a historian who was sentenced to death twice, and a religion that dared to call Jesus a "man". Scholars, but the great writers Corneille, Molière, Hugo, etc. Had no connection with it... From the prosperity and decline of the feudal dynasty, the emergence of the Reformation and Enlightenment, the baptism of the Great Revolution, the repeated "reincarnation" of political systems and the final establishment of the republic, to the outbreak of the two world wars, this chair faces the Seine River, carrying warm and heavy memories, and has witnessed the glorious and vicissitudes of France's four hundred years of history. They sat on the 29th chair one after another. As they sat there they experienced glory or terror, piety or enlightenment, epicness, loss, defeat... While Paris, France, Europe and all of humanity were changing.
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