by Jean Giono · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070362400
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«Le hussard sur le toit» is the adventure novel by Jean Giono, published by Folio in paperback (512 pages, in French).
In Provence ravaged by cholera around 1830, the Italian hussar colonel Angelo Pardi, exiled in France, searches for a fellow Carbonaro. Accused of poisoning the wells, he takes refuge on the rooftops of Manosque, where he observes the devastation and meets Pauline de Théus, with whom he will experience a story of love and renunciation.
The novel was originally published in 1951 and belongs to Jean Giono's Hussar cycle. This edition is number 240 in the Folio collection and dates from 1972.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction, and for those seeking classics of twentieth-century French literature.
Jean Giono was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
