His wings are so wide and big that you can see them from a distance. If you go to the Louvre, you will find that two dazzling famous paintings are related to Franois-René. One is Gill's "Adala's Funeral", a famous painting based on Xia's "Adala". The strong contrast of light, characters and emotions is shocking. Adala is Franois-René's early romantic work. Adala, the dead beauty in the picture, is the heroine in Xia's works. She once made many contemporary French people cry.
The other is David's work "Mrs. Recamier". This great beauty, who is half lying on an old bench, is Franois-René's lover. Once the great beauty is mentioned, it is impossible not to mention summer. Mrs. Rekamil is a famous salon host, especially famous for her peerless beauty. Xia pursues literature, politics and women. He has many mistresses, but his relationship with her has remained unchanged. He wrote 370 love letters to her, spent his last days in her house and died beside her. At that time, the great beauty was blind. She groped for a lock of white hair and put it on his chest. The year after Shi Xia's death, she also died.
In "ValléeauxLoups" on the outskirts of Paris, there is a Franois-René Museum. The interior furnishings of this museum show the close relationship between summer and thunder everywhere. Replicas of David's masterpiece hang between the entrances; There is a bust of her in the living room; The living room opened for her in Xia was rebuilt, and the ancient stool in the painting was displayed indoors. It depends on the situation. It is conceivable how this great writer, who thinks highly of himself and can't get along with others, perched himself on this great beauty. He dreamed of living in her body and mind and treating her as a secluded place for her soul. With Mrs. Recamier, the outside world is not so aggressive to him, and he can "be a Franois-René or do nothing" at will.
It has been a century and a half since Xia died, but there are fewer writers who can live in contemporary society like him than ever before. He is known as the master of French romanticism, and Hugo is only his successor; He strongly opposed Rousseau, but he had Rousseau's civil rights thought; He made a profound discussion on the future destiny of mankind, and his thoughts were very modern. He is a royalist, but he predicted the coming of democracy with a very keen eye and naturally loved democracy; His works are full of strength and vitality. If you want to know about French prose, you should look at Franois-René first. As a literary master in the19th century, he, Hugo and Flaubert are both iconic figures. The French compared him to Shakespeare, Goethe and Dante in France. He also participated in politics and paid official visits to foreign ambassadors and ministers of state.
Strangely, he was not understood by his contemporaries, and many scholars did not like him. Stendhal said he was "extremely hypocritical"; George sand said that "his works are meaningless and lack soul"; Pooh accused him of "hypocrisy and false genius in politics, literature and religion". In fact, this man with great vanity is eager to occupy the position of the whole literary world. The more compliments and flatteries others give, the better, and it will never be enough. He hates people who compete with him, whether domestic or foreign scholars. Byron, a lame poet, hated the shadow he left alone in Venice. Rousseau, a pest, turned the French Revolution upside down and his head fell to the ground, all of which were caused by him. Although he and Rousseau are not much different, they both hope to have a world tailored for themselves.
Only one person regards him with special respect, and that is Napoleon.
He and Napoleon are contemporaries, and they are very similar. Napoleon wants to be the world hegemon, and he wants to be Napoleon in the literary world. Tigers on two different hills still don't get along. The first challenge, or he Franois-René.
Shi Xia is an unstable person. In his underdeveloped era, he traveled to the United States, Jerusalem, Venice, Prague and other places to draw inspiration from his travels. Adala, with the virgin forest in the United States as the background, describes the love tragedy of an Indian tribal girl and makes inhuman sacrifices for religion. 1On July 4th, 807, after his trip to Italy and Spain, he published a travel book "A Beautiful and Historic Journey to Spain" in his Mercury magazine. This travel book is aimed at Napoleon, saying that he is a "tyrant worshipped as a god" and "in the midst of his prosperity and miracle". The article begins with fierce words:
When all people hear the echoes of slaves' chains and informers' voices under the cover of meanness and filth, when everything trembles before the tyrant, when it seems as dangerous to attract his grace as to gain his fall from grace, historians will appear and be responsible for revenge for the people. At the end of the article, it is also mentioned that several daughters of Louis XV who were exiled to Italy died in Tali.
When Napoleon got the news, he was furious: "Does Franois-René think I'm an idiot? Think I don't understand what he said? I will teach him to behead on the steps of Duzheli Palace! "
Napoleon's words naturally reached Xia's ears. But don't think Shi Xia is a snail. As long as you touch its tentacles, you will immediately shrink back into the shell. No, in the face of this threat, he feels honored instead. What do you have for Napoleon? You might as well show it to him. But Napoleon won't be stupid enough to be a martyr for a while, which is why Napoleon is Napoleon. He only merged Mercury magazine, and the police informed Shi Xia to move outside Paris. Xia longed for a quiet place to write, so he went to the Wolf Valley on the outskirts of Paris to settle down. The struggle between two tigers makes us have a "Franois-René Museum" in Wolf Valley now.
The popularity of Adala and true Christianity brought him a lot of income. He bought a house in Wolf Valley and its surrounding territories for 20,000 francs as his exile residence. "This is a gardener's house, hidden on several hills covered with trees." His wife recorded this in her memoir. "When we bought this house, it was like a barn without a yard, surrounded by an inferior apple orchard, a short forest and several useless trees ..." Later, they spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to rebuild it, making it a beautiful three-story building, with trees shipped from the United States and the Middle East everywhere. Talking about these trees, Franois-René said: Time.
I try my best to choose them from the various climatic environments where I wander around. They remind me of my travels and nourish my deep dreams.
Wolf Gu Xia Museum is the most visited museum in the summer. It attracts a group of summer readers and holds exhibitions and seminars every year. The collection of romance books here has reached as many as 6,000 volumes, which has become the center for studying romance works at home and abroad.
I went to visit the museum that day, and as soon as I entered the territory, I saw the ancient wood on the hillside, quite like the virgin forest in North America described by Adala. In the August sunshine, the air in the garden is very cold. In front of the house, a broad lawn stretches forward, with English flower beds on both sides. Franois-René said, "I like this place. For me, it has replaced my father's pastoral. I pay the price with the fruits of dreams and sleepless nights. "
Xia, 39, lives in Wolf Valley. In ten years, he planted thousands of trees. The ancient trees on the mountains in China were planted by him and his wife more than 100 years ago. At the same time, his brushwork is also fruitful, such as Martyr, The Last Abin Sahaji, Journey from Paris to Jerusalem, Moses and so on. 18110 year10. On October 4th, he started his masterpiece Memoirs before the Tomb. This book describes the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire and the Restoration, as well as close-ups of people and some historical scenes. The waves, sea breeze and loneliness that left a deep impression on me as a child are also reproduced in my works. After this memoir is finished, he intends to publish it after his death. Due to financial constraints, he published this work in advance.
Before leaving for the museum, I opened the traffic guide and saw that Wolf Valley was only eleven kilometers away from Paris. Napoleon banished him to punish him, but it was only 1 1 km away. Is this a joke? Xia regarded Napoleon as the only enemy, pointing to his spine and cursing the tyrant, while Napoleon was another matter, with a ferocious face, and always showed mercy when punishing him. He often pays his debts through his men. Xia is always in debt. In addition, there are two things, we can see that Napoleon showed extremely forbearance to him.
Napoleon once created twenty-nine "ten-year prizes", of which nineteen first prizes were awarded to a writer or scientist with outstanding achievements every ten years. When preparing the first prize, Napoleon meant Franois-René. The True Meaning of Christianity, published in Xia 1802, is a book about rebuilding religion, and Napoleon attached great importance to this book. During the French Revolution, religion became one of the objects of revolution, numerous church relics were destroyed and the operation system of religion was interrupted. Xia wrote this book to rebuild religion "on the ruins of temples". Great minds think alike. Napoleon issued a decree in July to restore relations with the Vatican 180 1. For this book, Napoleon appointed Shi Xia as the secretary of the embassy in Rome, and hoped to award him the first prize. However, contemporary people don't understand Shi Xia, and they don't want to praise his works and people. Even Napoleon's idea was rejected, and the Committee did not promise to award Shi Xia an award. Napoleon was so unhappy about it that he simply decided not to award the prize that year. Since then, it has never been awarded to others.
18 1 1 June 1, Che Nier, an academician of the French Academy, passed away, and someone has to fill this vacancy. Napoleon also belonged to Franois-René and formally expressed his opinion. This time, due to the emperor's personal intervention, although there were many obstacles, it was passed in the second round of voting with 13 votes to 10 votes. Napoleon was very happy, once again gave Xia economic support and paid off his debts on his behalf. It was also announced that he would be appointed as the director of the National Library of France.
Therefore, GhislaindeDiesbach, a writer who recently wrote a biography of Xia, thinks that Xia is unfair to Napoleon and lacks due manners. It was not until he wrote Memoirs by the Grave and devoted himself to writing his life more perfectly that he put in a good word for Napoleon's military and civil talents.
In fact, their relationship is more complicated, richer and more intriguing. Two giants, one conquers the world with a sword and the other conquers the world with a pen. The relationship between them is very subtle. The two sides are hostile and hateful, but often great minds think alike. It is inevitable to appreciate each other, respect each other, admire each other and be full of love in hatred. This unusual love-hate relationship is both wonderful and unique, and it is also very rare. One side dares to offend, and the other side is magnanimous. It is a king's demeanor and will not self-destruct in good faith. In the chapter about Napoleon in Memoirs by the Grave, Xia finally said this: After Napoleon, there was nothing.
When I visited the museum and learned the story of Shi Xia and Napoleon, my heart was only bitter. With the civilization experienced by contemporary people, there is always hatred between literati and politics and those in power. Scholar Shi Xia changed his environment. His head must have been cut off more than once. What makes people envy Xia is not his talent, but his luck. He met a generation of overlord, but this overlord can be as sacred and domineering as a scholar.