03/03/2024
Oh spring! sacred woods! deep blue sky! We feel a breath of living air penetrating you, and the opening in the distance of a white window; We mingle our thoughts with the chiaroscuro of the waters; We have the sweet happiness of being with the birds and seeing, under the shelter of the spring branches, these gentlemen making manners with these ladies. Extract from the poem "After Winter" by Victor Hugo, June 26, 1878