From Rome Rabindranath went to Florence and to Turin.. Then he went to Sweeden and from that place he went to Villeneuve where Romain Rolland was living lonely. Though Villeneuve was a small village but the place was very beutiful, an ideal place of all philosophers.The poet with his party took their seat in a hotel. Once Victor Rugo (Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo]; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered one of the most well-known French Romantic writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements.) had been there in that room.
Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings
His first book was published in 1902, when he was 36 years old. Through his advocacy for a 'people's theatre', he made a significant contribution towards the democratization of the theatre. As a humanist, he embraced the work of the philosophers of India ("Conversations with Rabindranath Tagore" and Mohandas Gandhi). Rolland was strongly influenced by the Vedanta philosophy of India, primarily through the works of Swami Vivekananda
He moved to Villeneuve, on the shores of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) to devote himself to writing.
Romain Rolland was living a little far off from the hotel but the place became more attractive . Rabindranath stayed here for another 12 days.Rolland explained the true picture of the fascists. Rabindranath became free from the illusion and renewed his statements about the fascist government. Thus he saved his good will.
Rabindranath wrote a letter to Andrews informing him his recent ideas about Italy and Mussolini. The letter was published in the Manchester Garden of London. On the other hand, Mussolini and his sattilite persons became annoyed with Rabindranath and gave an order of discontinuing Shantiniketan.
