La balada del Mistral

In the heart of French Provence, separated from the real world by rugged precipices and ancestral legends, there is the Luberon, a land of disbelievers and wild lavender where (they say) druids and sorceresses continue to dance the farandola on full moon nights. There lives and blows the Mistral, an orphaned and capricious child wind that has been stunning the whole world for centuries. This is his story. But this is also the story of Mr. Sécaillat and his neighbor, a young teacher: the story of the surprising archaeological discovery under the cherry orchard of their houses that will send the day to day winding down and will cement a new and unexpected friendship. . With clear echoes of Jean Giono and the Mediterranean fable tradition, The Ballad of the Mistral is many things: a Provençal Christmas tale; the adventure of two Indiana Jones from the Luberon and a delicate song to childhood and the legacy of our ancestors; a little piece of natural and universal history of Provence seasoned with walnut wine and pumpkin flower fritters.