LA CLEF DES CHAMPS by André FEUILLERAT (2008)

THE KEY OF THE FIELDS by André FEUILLERAT - Livre de Poche - Terre de Poche Collection - DE BORÉE Edition - 2008 - 490 pages. Recalling his teenage years, shared between boarding school at the college of Saint-Gaudens and the modest farm of his grandparents where, very early on, he participates in field work, the author invites us to discover the life of a village of about 600 inhabitants, located in the Pyrenean foothills of Haute-Garonne, which emerges from the past with its old-fashioned daily rural life and its French-Patois bilingualism, more precisely French-Gascon. Magic of a childhood shared between holidays in the countryside and the discipline of boarding school. Horror of World War II which diminishes the idea of happiness in the eyes of an idealistic little boy. A vanished world, but the delicate pen of André Feuillerat makes it come alive with all the emotion that memory keepers are capable of.