famous post-grandson Paul Cézanne (Paul Cezanne) 68-year-old Philippe Cezanne (Philippe Cezanne) announced his opposition to government plans to build a high-speed railway at the foot of Mount Sainte-Victoire, an image which is constantly found in the works of outstanding master. According to Philip, his great-grandfather came to be shocked if it knew about this.

«I very nearly had a stroke - Philippe Cezanne told reporters in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. - I know that upgrading requires some changes, but you need to save these places. They - the soul of Cezanne. They even have something magical, and many foreigners who come here are very surprised that the landscape remained the same as it saw the artist ».

Philippe Cezanne, which protects the «moral right» of his famous ancestor, said that paving the railroad through this picturesque town, with its pines, cypresses and red tile roofs - all the same that cause so beloved of his forefathers landscape « bloody sword attack ».

descendant Paul Cézanne has more support is becoming much-publicized campaign against the construction of high-speed segment of the route of Aix-en-Provence to Nice. It should reduce the time en route from Paris to Nice, which now occupies five and a half hours. The new line is scheduled to open by 2020.

According to the draft, the shortest, Sc. «Northern», the route the railroad will take four hours and will run through Provence along the southern slope of Mount Sainte-Victoire to Nice. But there is another option - the longer «southern» way. It will skirt «sezannovskie» place and run through the coastal city of Marseille and Toulon. Road construction on the second route would cost at 3.5 billion euros more expensive, and time on the road in this case would increase by 20 minutes.

Despite that, last year, French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed support for just a second, «Southern» option. However, in January 2009, members of the government announced that changed, and preferred a cheap and direct way through Provence. The response of the population promptly proceeded. Just a few days at the Aix-en-Provence and five thousand people gathered to protest against the decision. Among the opponents were, and wine, whose lands are located on the outskirts of Saint-Victoire. They argue that their vineyards will be destroyed during construction of new railway.

Last week, 86 representatives of Provencal authorities have gone to Paris to discuss the matter with the Minister for the Environment by Jean-Louis Borla (Jean-Louis Borloo). The main representative of the delegation was the mayor of Aix-en-Provence Zhuassen-Mazini Maryse (Maryse Joissains Masini). She said that in fact the construction of roads through Provence hardly cost less, because a lot of funds will have to spend to protect from the vibration caused by passing trains, the local microelectronics plant. Besides, if the path will pass through Marseilles and Toulon, it would attract more passengers - some two million people, which will enable faster and more efficiently to recover money.

for a speedy resolution of this issue as the authorities seek to Nice. They plan to apply for hosting Winter Olympic Games in 2018 and look forward to building a new high-speed tracks. Jean-Louis Borla has promised to give a final answer by the end of June.

interesting that Cezanne himself regularly use the train to get from Paris to Aix-en-Provence, but he was very angry when he was placed near Miss de Buffalo built a small railway station. This mood, he handed one of his works, created in 1873. In the distance he has depicted Mount St. Victoire, and placed at the forefront of crossing the hills of the local railroad. «Pitted slopes of hills painted blood-red. The artist found them open wound in the heart of the landscape, an affront to nature », - told Fresse Michel (Michel Fresset), director of Atelier Cezanne in Aix-en-Provence.

famous post was fascinated by Mount Sainte-Victoire, and has devoted her 44 paintings and 43 watercolors.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Source: telegraph.co . uk , artinvestment.ru