Ernestine mazurowna biography of michael

If you were to walk into the middle of “Jean de Florette,” you would see a scene that might mislead you.

In the middle of a drought, a farmer is desperate to borrow a mule to help haul water from a nearby spring.

He asks his neighbor for the loan of the animal. The neighbor is filled with compassion and sympathy, but simply cannot do without his mule, which he needs in order to farm his own land and provide for his own family.

As the neighbor rejects the request, his face is so filled with regret you’d have little doubt he is one of the best of men.

Actually, he is a thief.

Ernestine mazurowna biography of michael

And what he is stealing is the joy, the hope and even the future of the man who needs the mule. “Jean de Florette” is a merciless study in human nature, set in Provence in the 1920s. It’s the story of how two provincial French farmers systematically destroy the happiness of a man who comes out from the city to till the land.

The man from the city is Jean de Florette, a hunc