Michel Serres, the French Academy
The article dedicated to Michel Serres in Queyras Alps Recreation, No. 30, January 2001 (published by Le Dauphiné Libéré) is not ambitious, as were the work of sloe-mown, or Henri Jean Tivollier Falque Verde. It's a comment that Robert Doisneau photos as part of a report commissioned, taken in 1947 in Saint-Veran. Each summer in July, Michel Serres resort in Queyras, for nearly 50 years in Moline, it seems. The comment is welcome. Michel Serres and Robert Doisneau saw the same Queyras Queyras not picturesque tourists, but the Queyras rural and agricultural. Michel Serres himself participated annually haymaking.
The article includes two parts. The second part develops a general reflection fair, but agreed on the peasant civilization (when in Queyras Serres came in the 1950s, this civilization was still alive), who lasted in France until the Second World War and the Queyras, until the 1970s. Michel Serres wrote a hymn in praise of those peasants who have made France and our entire civilization, from the domestication of sheep and wheat farming emerged in the Fertile Crescent 8000 years ago. It could have been written about anywhere in the South or West of France.
The first part, however, in which Serres attempts to define the Queyras and understand what these high valleys have specific, takes on a literary mode that can be called the "myth" of Queyras. While the myth is interesting, beautiful, noble, sympathetic, but it remains a myth. This myth is to present the Queyras as a land of refuge for the persecuted, a land of civil liberties, a land where they are mixed religions and nations. His view is very similar to Andre Chamson that expressed in the preface of Queyras, beautiful book of General Guillaume.
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