Today it is fashionable to be smart, speak beautifully, use proverbs, sayings and other popular expressions in your speech. One such example that you can often hear today is the following phrase: "Everything is new - it is well forgotten old."
Expression value
As they say, "everything is transient and departing, only music is eternal." What does it mean? The point is that everything in life does not go in a straight line, but in a circle. All events are repeated, come and go, disappear for a while in order to return again. You can give a huge number of examples that everything returns to square one. We use the experience of previous generations, modify it and present it as a new product. Nothing wrong with the fact that everything new is well forgotten old, no. Not every person is given something to come up with for himself. This is inherent only to individual, gifted individuals, so the rest have to use someone else's experience. Everything returns: fashion, outlook on life, hobbies. Of course, this is not always visible on the surface, but if you look closely, you can find a lot of examples.
The origin of winged expression
This phrase "Everything is new - it is well forgotten old" appeared in the first half of the XIX century. The authorship is attributed to the French writer Jacques Pesce. In 1824 his "Memoirs" were published, but he did not publish them in his own name. As a pseudonym, he used the name of Rosa Burnet, the personal dressmaker of the French Queen Marie Antoinette.
This phrase has a story. The plot in which she was born is as follows: the queen, like any woman, was very fond of new dresses. Having a high status, she wanted to look perfect, so her dressmaker, trying to please the lady, dodged as she could. Once, Rose Burnet took one of the queen's old dresses and altered it, changing the style a little. The queen was very pleased with the new thing. It was in this case that the dressmaker concluded that "everything new is well forgotten old."
Disputes about authorship
Answering the question of who said, “the new is the well-forgotten old, ” it is difficult to give an exact answer. There is much debate on this subject. There is no doubt that Jacques Pesce wrote this phrase in his Memoirs. However, some have doubts about whether he invented it or read it somewhere. Doubts arise because this phrase, formulated in other words, but with the same meaning, can be found in other authors.
In the fourteenth century, the English-speaking poet Jeffrey Chaucer in one of his ballads expressed the idea, which is translated into Russian as follows: "There is no new custom that would not be old." The Russian writer K. M. Fofanov, who lived and worked in the 19th century, wrote: "Ah, the wisdom of being is economical: everything new in it is sewn from junk." Be that as it may, it does not matter who is the author of this expression, the main thing is that its meaning is relevant not only today. In different eras, this thought worried people. Therefore, the conclusion suggests itself that everything is really eternal in this world.
