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pronunciation:
[zheeohnoh]
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| (1895–1970)
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| Novelist, born in Manosque, SE France, the son of an immigrant Italian shoe-maker. After working in a bank (1912), and serving in the chasseurs alpins (1915–18), he lived by his writing from 1930 onwards. Successful works include Colline (1929), Un de Baumurgues (1929), Regain (1930), the trilogy Le Chant du monde (1934), and Que ma Joie Demeure (1935). His pacifist activities earned him brief prison sentences in 1939 and 1944, but he regained literary popularity with Mort d'un Personnage (1949) and Le Hussard sur le toit (1951). His articles were published under the title 152 Chroniques journalistiques de Jean Giono and Les Héraclides (1996). |
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