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  1. Mar 28, 2022 · The horseman on the roof. In the white heat the sky is opaque, the air leaden and the light intense. A single cavalryman wonders at the oppressive atmosphere of the unfamiliar countryside he is entering.

  2. On one roof, when he comes down into the house, he meets a lady who does not seem scared of him and even offers him a cup of tea and some food. He does eventually come down and assists a nun, who washes the dead bodies before they are buried.

  3. The Horseman on the Roof (orig. French Le Hussard sur le toit) is a 1951 adventure novel by French writer Jean Giono. [1] It tells the story of Angelo Pardi, a young Italian carbonaro colonel of hussars, caught up in the 1832 cholera epidemic in Provence.

    • Jean Giono
    • 1951
  4. Jean Giono's The Horseman on the Roof represents a strange kind of throwback to the picaresque literature of earlier centuries. A patriotic young colonel is on the run from his native Italy because he had killed an Austrian baron in a duel -- at a time when the Austrians were in control of Northern Italy.

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    • Paperback
  5. Sep 8, 2022 · the horseman on the roof Bookreader Item Preview ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220810210446 ...

  6. Jean Giono. Macmillan, 1982 - Fiction - 426 pages. Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic...

  7. This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono, a semi-allegorical novel which follows the adventures of Angelo Pardi, a young Italian hussar and the titular horseman, as he travels through the South of France at a time when the region is being ravaged by a deadly outbreak of cholera.

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