by Jean Giono · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070794027
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«L'homme qui plantait des arbres» is the short story by Jean Giono published by Folio in paperback (96 pages, in French).
The story presents Elzéard Bouffier, a solitary shepherd who devotes his life to planting trees in an arid area of Provence. His patient work transforms the landscape: forests of oaks, birches, beeches and maples are reborn, and water and animals return to a valley that seemed desolate.
School edition from Folio+ Collège (No. 10), line «XXe siècle | Nouvelle», with complete text and dossier by Guillaume Duez. The story was published in 1953; this edition, in 2016.
Designed for the secondary school curriculum in France (classe de cinquième), with didactic apparatus aimed at analysing the story in the classroom.
Jean Giono was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
