For the ten centuries, there are many people who went up and down the sinuous roads of Chartreuse: pilgrims, travellers, artists, builders(manufacturers) of roads, woodcutters, farmers...
Jean Sgard invites us in a literary walk, over time, on both historic roads of Chartreuse: the one utilitarian and artful(industrious), other one tourist. He(It) makes us bare secrets of this massif, through the ruddy characters: writers (Balzac, Rousseau, Chateaubriand), painters, but also highwaymen, as Chuck, smuggler righter of wrongs of the poor people, and of course workers, inhabitants, small populates Chartreuse.
Iconography: Catherine Coeuré
University press of Grenoble - Collection The imprint of time(weather) - On 2017
Jean Sgard is outstanding professor of the university Stendhal - Grenoble. He dedicated the biggest(greatest) part of his researches(searches) to the novel and to the periodical press of the XVIIIth century. He was secretary then president of the French Company(Society) of Study of the XVIIIth century.