The Horseman on the Roof (novel)

1951 book by Jean Giono

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

In 1995, it was made into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

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* Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

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Works by Jean Giono

Bibliography

Literature|

* Colline
* Lovers Are Never Losers
* Second Harvest
* Blue Boy
* The Solitude of Compassion
* The Song of the World
* Joy of Man's Desiring
* Les Vraies Richesses
* A King Alone
* Les Âmes fortes
* The Open Road
* The Horseman on the Roof
* The Malediction
* The Man Who Planted Trees
* The Straw Man
* Two Riders of the Storm

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* Croesus
* Pan trilogy

Authority control databases

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* France
* BnF data
* Germany

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* MusicBrainz release group

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