{"id":293,"date":"2008-03-21T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/?p=293"},"modified":"2012-01-10T01:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:04:30","slug":"1737-21-septembre-duga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"1737, 21 septembre. Le Pont du Gard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34814543?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;loop=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nApr\u00e8s un d\u00e9jeun\u00e9 d\u2019excellentes figues, je pris un guide et j\u2019allai voir le Pont du Gard. C\u2019\u00e9toit le premier ouvrage des Romains que j\u2019eusse vu. Je m\u2019attendois \u00e0 voir un monument digne des mains qui l\u2019avoient construit. Pour le coup l\u2019objet passa mon attente, et ce fut la seule fois en ma vie. Il n\u2019appartenoit qu\u2019aux Romains de produire cet effet. L\u2019aspect de ce simple et noble ouvrage me frappa d\u2019autant plus qu\u2019il est au milieu d\u2019un desert o\u00f9 le silence et la solitude rendent l\u2019objet plus frappant et l\u2019admiration plus vive ; car ce pr\u00e9tendu pont n\u2019etoit qu\u2019un aqueduc. On se demande quelle force a transport\u00e9 ces pierres \u00e9normes si loin de toute carri\u00e9re, et a reuni les bras de tant de milliers d\u2019hommes dans un lieu o\u00f9 il n\u2019en habite aucun. Je parcourus les trois \u00e9tages de ce superbe \u00e9difice que le respect m\u2019emp\u00eachoit presque d\u2019oser fouler sous mes pieds. Le retentissement de mes pas sous ces immenses voutes me faisoit croire entendre la forte voix de ceux qui les avoient b\u00e2ties.<\/h4>\n<p>Pont du Gard, 21 septembre 1737 \u2014 Pont du Gard, 21 septembre 1999. <em>Les Confessions<\/em>, Livre sixi\u00e8me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr\u00e8s un d\u00e9jeun\u00e9 d\u2019excellentes figues, je pris un guide et j\u2019allai voir le Pont du Gard. C\u2019\u00e9toit le premier ouvrage des Romains que j\u2019eusse vu. Je m\u2019attendois \u00e0 voir un monument digne des mains qui l\u2019avoient construit. Pour le coup l\u2019objet passa mon attente, et ce fut la seule fois en ma vie. Il n\u2019appartenoit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1737, 21 septembre. Le Pont du Gard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,13,3],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-les-confessions","category-annees","category-oeuvres-de-jean-jacques-rousseau","tag-pont-du-gard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circonstances.net\/moments\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}