Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
...years among the farm people of a lonely plateau in Southern France. All he cares about is joy-in useless beauty, in the purity of animals. Carried away by his precept and example, the farmers reduce their planting to what they can eat, turn their animals loose, crowd their fallow land with narcissi, make friends with a stag and his doe. Having set up his earthly paradise, Giono regretfully proceeds in his closing chapters to knock it to pieces. He does so none too logically. Jean Giono has a genius for observing, and recording, the splendors of the natural world...