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biographies was such a success it had gone into a third edition. And “many of our readers are so enthusiastic they would like to go to France to see the places where Elzéard Bouffier lived and planted the forest. We should be very grateful if you would be so kind as to send us the exact address of the village which is closest to the forest, and also the nearest railway station.”
    What better tribute could one offer any writer?
    I don’t know whether my father went so far as to invent a railway station to please his German readers, for sadly all this happened in 1969, and the next year he was to stop inventing for ever.

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    Afterword copyright © Aline Giono, 1975
    L’Homme qui Plantait des Arbres
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    Copyright © Editions Gallimard, 1980
    English translation copyright © Barbara Bray, 1995
    Wood engravings copyright © Harry Brockway, 1995
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    ISBN 9781860461170