Jean de Florette (Romance)

Jean de Florette is the first volume of the Water of the hills , diptych romantic of Marcel Pagnol published in 1963; Manon of the sources of it is the second part.

Summary

This first volume starts with a long description of the small village of Provence of the white Country houses, tallies of all the intrigue. It poses then the dramatic situation: an old man and his great nephew Ugolin, last members of the principal family of the village (Soubeyran), covet a field and the source which sprinkles it because they wants to establish there the very remunerative culture of the eyelet S; believer with a nearest sale of the ground, they stop the source to discourage the intending purchasers. However, their hopes are disappointed by the arrival of the heir to the house and the field (Jean de Florette), which settles there with its family. The novel then describes the efforts of this townsman to carry out his agricultural projects in spite of its ignorance of the source and the absence of water.

Incipit

the White Country houses, it was a parish of one hundred fifty inhabitants, perched on the prow of the one of the last buttresses of the solid mass of Star, with two miles of Aubagne… An overland route led to it by a rise so abrupt that by far it appeared vertical: but on the side of the hills it left only one mule track there, from which some paths left which led to the sky.

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