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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 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in Giono's private correspondence, appears in his first written novel Naissance de l'Odyssée, and was the subject of an unpublished magazine article in the 1920s.
Jean Giono biography; Goslan, Richard J. " Jean Giono: From Pacifism to Collaboration ". Telos 139 (Summer 2007). New York: Telos Press; Université McGill: le roman selon les romanciers (French) Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine Inventory and analysis of Jean Giono's non-novelistic writings; Jean Giono biography (French)
It tells the story of a man who has sold his orchard. When the new owner wants to cut the trees down, the former owner threatens with suicide. The film is based on the short story "Jofroi de la Maussan" by Jean Giono, which appears in the collection of his short stories The Solitude of Compassion. [2]
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.
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Giono has Bouffier leave his sheep in their valley pasture and plant acorns on the barren ridge, where the sheep have no reason to go. Bouffier protects his tree nursery by his cottage against the sheep: "Il étudiait déjà, d'ailleurs, la reproduction des hêtres et il avait près de sa maison une pépinière issue des faînes.