Rue Jean Giono

Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque to a father who was a shoemaker and a mother who was an ironer. Obliged to work for the family's needs, he left school in second grade to become a bank employee. However, he never stopped learning and reading passionately. From 1911, he begins to write

Mobilized during the First World War, he emerged traumatized and viscerally pacifist. His first book La Colline appeared in 1929 and met with relative success, allowing him to leave his job in banking to devote himself entirely to writing. at the end of the Second World War, he was put on trial by the literary world, which reproached him for having published texts in pro-German magazines and he spent five months in detention. It was not until 1951 and the publication of Hussar on the Roof, that Jean Giono again became a successful author. We owe him also &eecirc;gute;me époque, Les Âmes fortes (1950). In 1954, he entered the Académie Goncourt. Intéressé by the cinema, Jean Giono participates in the scripts of films à from the years 1950 and tries à the reéalisation. He died in Manosque on October 9, 1970