During his college years Daniel Lines, from the neighborhood Champel in Geneva, spent each day watching the "expiatory monument "a committee composed of religious and official was erected in 1903. Having reached adolescence
Lines Daniel was struck by the hypocrisy emanating from the words engraved on the monument. This led him 25 years ago to make a collage from a postcard of the "Wall of the Reformers' (We recognize the statue of Calvin) and fragments of surrealist paintings as a sign of reaction to oppressive Calvinist morality that permeated the cultural milieu of his childhood.
I thank him very much for sending me this postcard publishing original and narrated me what had prompted him to compose this piece.
This map was published in 1994 by cARTed.
It can be found on display at the publisher's website at:
http://www.carted.eu/cartes/j012/01209.htm
the back of the card contains these words:
antitrinitarian
Pursued by the Inquisition Roman
Sentenced to death on the orders of Calvin
burned alive in Geneva on 27 Oc tober 1553 
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A big thank you to Pascal Pithois (webmaster Carted.eu) that m ' allowed to make contact with Daniel Lines. Monum
nt atoning.
the right, central part of the "wall of reformers in Geneva at the Parc des Bastions
(officially" International Monument to the Reformation ") composed by Guillaume Farel, Jean Calvin, Theodore Beza and John Knox.
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