Les Alpes, singuliers spectacles

[Autom. eng. transl.] With the intention of listening to the "feeling of height", we have chosen to propose an anthology of texts, conceived under the sign of variety, but structured in such a way as to show the interactions. Our aim was not to be exhaustive, but to give the selected excerpts a meaningful form, such that everyone is put in dialogue with the other. The chronological arrangement has proved necessary (from the mid-eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century), but it does not impose or suggest that the centuries it delimits be closed on themselves and that the route is definitively traced: on the contrary, over the pages are drawn multiple routes. The names that appear are those of the great discoverers of the previous century and the great feathers of pre-Romanticism and French Romanticism proper: Windham, Saussure, Bourrit, Bordier, on the one hand and, on the other, Rousseau, Senancour, Ramond but also Hugo, Lamartine, Musset, Chateaubriand, Gautier, to name but a few. We did not want to give a homogeneous vision to them: on the contrary, the antithesis appeared to us in this particularly fruitful case.