“And there he is confined forever within these four walls: impoverishment, police, charity and death. In 1871 he got to Veysonnaz at a farmer’s place, where this time he had to accept a bed for the night. It was the 9th of March.”
JEAN GIONO
Le Déserteur © Gallimard
There is a sense of uncertainty around his death in the parish registers: one registrar notes that he died at Bieudron, another at Veysonnaz. Both places are written in the same hand, that of the curate Gillet. Lift up your head to the hill opposite, and see the steeple of the church of Veysonnaz, the church that was built after the Deserter passed through.
A source of classic inspiration from chromolithography in the 19th and 20th century.
PATOIS
I Bon Djyû de Nînda, i paradî d’Injonna, inféi d’Ijerâblo.
The Good God of Nendaz, the paradise of Veysonnaz, the miserable hell of Isérables.
THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. C.F.B.
31,5 x 24 cm. © Robert Hofer, Sion
CHARADE
My first is a boy’s name
My second is the fourth letter of the alphabet
My third is the king of the jungle
My all is a flower
What am I?