22 Mar 2007

Nietzsche in Nice

It was appropriate that, after the cafe-philo evening, the next day I finally got around to taking a photo of the plaque commemorating Nietzsche's first winter stay just down the road, at 38, Rue Catherine Segurane:



    "He then moved farther [19] west to Nice, where both the elegance of the old city [20] and the power of the sea [21] [22] [23] captivated him. Nietzsche also enjoyed vigorous walks in the mountains at Èze, east of Nice, on what is today called the "Nietzsche Path" [24]. The beauty of the Parc du Château [25], above the Old City of Nice, never disappointed him, even as his eyesight continued to deteriorate almost to the point of blindness."

    http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/452786.html




Nietzsche's terrace in the Parc de Chateau


Nietzsche himself said:

    " 'Nice and the Engadine [Switzerland]: that is the circle dance this old nag cannot escape. . . . To be sure, there can be no more beautiful season in Nice than the current one: the sky blindingly white, the sea tropical blue [21], and in the night a moonlight that makes the gas lanterns feel ashamed, for they flush red. And here once again I perambulate, as so many times before, thinking my kinds of thoughts, ebon thoughts."—Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, December 13, 1886'

    http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/452786.html


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