"When Auguste and Clotilde spoke of love: The freedom of flowers"

Name: "When Auguste and Clotilde spoke of love: The freedom of flowers"
Start: 2023-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle de l'Humanité

Sunday 17 September 2023, 15:00, 19:00Passed

Conditions

Price of the place: 15 euros

Registration

01 43 26 08 56 auguste.comte.paris@gmail.com

® Iluia Malkygina

"When Auguste and Clotilde spoke of love: The freedom of flowers"
Theatrical reading-meeting with two actors (Alternating Matthias Boussuge and Nabi Riahi; Alice Allouc), directed by Pierre Adam in partnership with L'Athanor Berlioux.
This reading will plunge you into the heart of the work of the philosopher Auguste Comte and will highlight the epistolary relationship he had with Clotilde de Vaux, his muse and the great love of his life.

About the location

Chapelle de l'Humanité

5 rue Payenne 75003 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Chapel of Humanity is the last remaining positivist temple in Europe. Built by the Brazilian positivists in 1903, its plans were designed by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, founder of positivism which vowed the building of a "great temple of humanity". He designed one of the greatest philosophical systems of the 19th century. After writing the monumental Cours de Philosophie Positive, he met Clotilde de Vaux in 1844 and maintained an intense correspondence with her during the year 1845, "the year without equal". But Clotilde died of tuberculosis in 1846, at his home on Rue Payenne. It is under his influence that Comte imagined a religion whose cult is humanity itself. Conceived as a secular temple, the chapel houses the element of this concrete cult in the form of a pantheon, taking up the positivist calendar which paid homage every day to the great men (scholars, thinkers, writers, poets…). The singularity of this place, very rarely open to the public, is an element of strik