LE FIGARO MAGAZINE.- How was the idea of this several-month journey to the great monasteries of the West born?
Romain SARDOU. -
I tend to leave impulsively, otherwise I don't travel.
However, in the middle of a page, it can suddenly become “indispensable” for me to go and see what Montaigne's tower or Thomas More's tomb look like.
Not to change scenery, but to change ideas.
This is how I found myself alone one day at Fleury Abbey in the crypt where the relics of Saint Benedict are venerated.
It was almost evening.
As usual, instead of praying, I was thinking.
It was then that a door let in a monk.
After lighting a novena candle, he began to pray for a few moments beside me before disappearing.
I suddenly thought that this old Benedictine with the shaggy gray beard could have appeared in the same way, in the same habit and performed the same gestures under Louis XVI, Louis the Pious or in front of Joan of Arc!
This man was…
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