Jean-Michel Delacomptée: “La Bruyère was already worried about the indifference of city dwellers for “rural and rural things””

2024-02-06T17:52:06.431Z

Highlights: Jean-Michel Delacomptée: “La Bruyère was already worried about the indifference of city dwellers for ‘rural and rural things’” “Delving back into reading the classics allows us to appreciate our era to its fullest extent, that is to say, to note the essential differences, but also the profound similarities, which distinguish it and simultaneously bring it closer to past realities,” he says. “Their literary testimonies are worth a lot, through their ability to make people sensitive and visualize...”

TRIBUNE - Despite the distance of centuries, several reflections of the famous moralist who lived under Louis XIV shed light on the current agricultural crisis, explains the writer, essayist and academic.