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The Man Who Planted Trees (French title: L'homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It tells the story of one shepherd's long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps , near Provence ...
The Man Who Planted Trees (French: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back.It is based on Jean Giono's 1953 short story The Man Who Planted Trees.
Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent [1] and his mother a laundry woman. He spent the majority of his life in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
The Malediction, (Fr. Le Moulin de Pologne) – 1952; The Man Who Planted Trees (Fr. L'homme qui plantait des arbres) – Reader's Digest – 1953; The Straw Man (Fr. Le Bonheur fou) – Éditions Gallimard – 1957; Angelo (Fr. Angelo) – Gallimard – 1958; Hortense ou l'Eau vive (avec Jean Allioux) Editions France-Empire – 1958
The lime tree is referred to in the 1953 story "The Man Who Planted Trees" by Jean Giono. The unnamed narrator of the story re-visits a once abandoned and desolate village around which the man referenced by the books title (Elzéard Bouffier) has planted a forest over a period of 40 years.
The god Pan first occurred in Jean Giono's works in the 1924 poetry collection Accompagné de la flûte.He is then mentioned in Giono's private correspondence, appears in his first written novel Naissance de l'Odyssée, and was the subject of an unpublished magazine article in the 1920s.
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