Used Book – La terre qui demeure, Claude Michelet

Carved, one might say, from the granite of Limousin, Jean Bordare loves his land with an exclusive passion. It's the 1960s, a time when "progress" and new technical ideas threaten France's rural landscape, unchanged for centuries. Bulldozers are already appearing around properties. Uranium, it seems, is being sought. Soon, there will be speculators with their housing development projects.

Alone against everyone, the farmer refuses to sell, unlike his neighbors. He rages against this flood of money invading the village, a fortune that smells of the cowardly abandonment of estates. Bordare himself embarks on a struggle whose outcome is not predetermined...