Constance Fenimore Woolson: Road Trip from the fossil Man of Cavillon to the Mausoleum of Salvador Dali – by Pierre-François Puech & Bernard Puech

Abstract:

Constance Fenimore Woolson visited in 1880 the Cavillon cave overlooking the via Julia Augusta and presented an account, in her travel piece “At Mentone”, of the discovery in the Balzi-Rossi (red rocks) of the skeleton and culture of the palaeolithic “Man of Mentone”. The narrative goes towards Lumone to an old Roman tomb bringing us to the shadows of the time that does not persist, while memories do. This message opens a way from the old Roman road to the tomb of Salvador Dali in the Figueres Theatre-Museum. Indeed these noticeable places reflect the fact that memory needs a spatial and temporal locality