Maarten has been taking his evening walk on the Maliebaan in Utrecht for forty years. A plaque has been hanging at number 36 for a number of years. Philosopher René Descartes lived here. And Maarten wants to know all about that. In Van Rossem Tells, he therefore talks to Descartes expert Erik-Jan Bos
And guess what: behind the plaque on Maliebaan a dramatic story unfolds. Descartes lived there for a few years around 1630 and in Utrecht he probably also wrote his famous statement: 'Cogito ergo sum', or 'I think, therefore I am'. But the city has not been kind to the great thinker, to say the least.
