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Corinne Royer: "I want to upset the clichés around peasants"

2021-09-28T02:09:36.717Z


INTERVIEW - The author publishes Pleine terre, a novel describing the despair and revolt that are playing out in our countryside. She explains how she wrote this book, inspired by a real fact.


That morning, Jacques Bonhomme was neither in his fields nor with his animals.

He wakes up in a bed of ferns, far from his farm.

He's on the run.

Inspired by the life of Jérôme Laronze, this farmer shot dead by gendarmes in 2017 after nine days on the run,

Pleine Terre

describes the collapse of a man and with him, that of the peasant world.

Should we call him back?

Every day in France, a farmer commits suicide.

How did we get here?

What happened?

Corinne Royer alternates narrative points of view and goes back in time.

She explains to Le Figaro how she wrote this book at the confluence of rage and revolt.

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- You write in your notes: "This novel is freely inspired by the story of Jérôme Laronze, a farmer shot dead by the gendarmes in 2017, after three years of administrative harassment."

Is this a book you've worked on for four years?

Corinne ROYER.

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I've been working even longer, not on this book, but on

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Source: lefigaro

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