Elzéard Bouffier "The Man Who Planted Trees" - Fact or Fiction? (1 Viewer)

[walwyn]

Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees" or " L'homme qui plantait des arbres"
http://www.urbanparanoia.co.uk/rants/planted.html

about a shepherd who tranformed the landscape of Provence
was been made into an animated film in 1987,
http://www.herondance.org/studio_art.mvc?p=3003&Category_code=PROD2

but is the story true? Back in 1982 the editor of Co-evolution was a little unsure.

 

[Michael Frankis]

Fiction, sad to say as it is a very nice story.

Michael

 

[walwyn]

Quite as Jean Giono says:
http://home.infomaniak.ch/arboretum/pla.htm

still a nice story and one that seems to be gathering currency in the internet years.