Description
• Gérard Boutet
• Jean-Cyrille Godefroy Editions, Collection : Ils Étaient de Leur Village, 1999, 283 pp.,24.00 x 15.5 cm.
Summary :
Seven elderly men recall the old days, when they were still just little rascals, and a storyteller listens to them. Through their memories, an entire bygone village is reborn, animated, and revived. The grape harvest follows the grain harvest, preparations are made to kill the pig while awaiting the threshing machine, the fire of the evening gatherings crackles in the hearth... Lend your ear in turn: you already hear the blacksmith’s hammer rebounding on the forge’s anvil. It is the heart of the village beginning to beat again!
Biography:
A journalist and writer born into a peasant family, author of some forty works, Gérard Boutet travels to villages, meets the people, awakens their memories and records them. The Académie Française has crowned his work.








