Rousseau in Montmorency
L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” This quotation from the beginning of The Social Contract, Read More …
Category: Montmorency
Grétry in Montmorency
After the excellent guided tour of Rousseau’s house we had a ten-minute break before the next tour began. Purely by chance I had come to Montmorency on the one day of Read More …
The family and town of Montmorency
From the tenth to the seventeenth centuries, the town of Montmorency was ruled by an aristocratic family of the same name, one of the most ‘distinguished’ and powerful families of Read More …