The phalanstery of God
By Pascal Bruckner
Whether you are a believer or not, arriving in Lagrasse for a few days, sharing the life of the brothers, is to undergo an instantaneous immersion in a society at the antipodes of ours: silence instead of noise, rather frugality. than abundance, the cut rather than the connection.
Housed in a sober but large cell, the bishop's room, which overlooks a splendid garden, we fall asleep at night, windows wide open, to the song of toads and nightingales, we wake up before 6 o'clock on the step menu of the canons who go to matins.
Lagrasse Abbey, built before Charlemagne and restored by the canons after a long period of neglect.
Éric Sander for Le Figaro Magazine
Men choose to isolate themselves in the middle of nature in a setting of breathtaking beauty and to live according to the rule of Saint Augustine.
What in them can seduce us or at least shake us even though they preferred withdrawal and chastity?
They have decided to die for what is not essential, we live for what they deem frivolous.
For our prosaic universe, this choice of seclusion
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