Little Muratou

By Claudine Fisher

At the end of the 19th century in the southwest of France, a ten-year old boy, Alfred Vizon, nicknamed 'little Muratou, ' wrenched from his grandmother's home in the P rigord countryside, carves a life for himself studying agronomy at the time when the Bordeaux vineyards are devastated by the phylloxera disease.Grown-up, Alfred leaves for the French colony of Algeria in 1911 to work as an American grapevine rootstocks specialist. The First World War abruptly changes his path when he is called to defend his country. In 1914, he becomes a soldier in the French Colonial Corps of light infantry, a Tirailleur or skirmisher in an indigenous regiment, fighting in the difficult theaters of Northern France, Tunisia and Morocco. Resilient and passionate, 'little Muratou' will lead you on an exciting adventure during the complex time of the Belle Epoque.Lire 'Little Muratou' c'est se plonger dans le Sud-Ouest de la France la fin du XIX si cle. l' ge de dix ans, le petit Muratou perd sa grand-m re et doit quitter le P rigord de son enfance pour aller chez les Fr res de Gramat et ensuite l' cole d'agriculture de La R ole au moment o le phylloxera d vaste les vignobles bordelais.Devenu grand, le jeune homme va chercher fortune en 1911 Mondovi, en Alg rie, en tant que sp cialiste de greffes de vigne sur plants am ricains. La guerre de 1914-1918 va le d tourner de ses projets. Soldat dans un r giment de Tirailleurs Indig nes, il se bat au nord de la France et en Belgique, puis se trouve confront aux complexit s des fronts tunisiens et marocains.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08BDSDWLR
• ISBN13: 9798655186712
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"