by Alain Baraton · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246858812
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«Le camélia de ma mère» is the biographical account by Alain Baraton, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (91 pages, in French).
Alain Baraton, head gardener at Versailles, evokes the camellia his mother tended in front of the family home by the sea, which marked his childhood. From that flower comes a narrative blending memory, botany and history: its origins in China with Emperor Shennong, tea, Venice, Coco Chanel and the lady of the camellias by Alexandre Dumas.
Published on April 5, 2017. The work's subtitle is «Un livre qui s'offre comme un bouquet de fleurs».
For lovers of gardening and botany, and for those who enjoy personal memoirs and French cultural history.
Alain Baraton, born 10 September 1957 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, is a master gardener. Since 1982, he has been gardener-in-chief of the park at the Palace of Versailles
