Les récits de la demi-brigade
By Jean Giono
1972
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Le héros d'Un roi sans divertissement, l'inoubliable et désenchanté capitaine de gendarmerie Martial Langlois, reparaît dans ces six nouvelles.Pendant la Restauration, Martial, ancien soldat de Napoléon, sert le pouvoir en y mettant une nuance de distance et de dédain. Sur son cheval, des Alpes de Provence aux Cévennes, il débrouille les mystères policiers et déjoue les complots politiques, tout en poursuivant son rêve.La nature, les chevaux, le mystère, le danger, l'intelligence et les personnages aux coeurs fiers, tout concourt à faire de ces nouvelles autant de chefs-d'oeuvre qui se lisent avec le plus vif plaisir.
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Jean Giono
Author · 32 books
Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English. Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II. He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died. Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding collected work by a French writer), the Légion d’Honneur, and he was a member of the Académie Goncourt.
