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Quand les Fruits Racontent des Histoires d'Hommes [What Fruit Tells of the History of Men]

By: Jean-Yves Maisonneuve(Author), Armelle Delaplace(Illustrator)
144 pages, colour illustrations
Quand les Fruits Racontent des Histoires d'Hommes [What Fruit Tells of the History of Men]
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Language: French

Life is born of the encounter. This is the covenant of the seed and soil which germinated the plant, the wind against the sail which advances the boat, and in contact with the egg, the pollen grain and the sperm bear forth the fruit and the child. Similarly, in our Western culture, the meeting of Adam and Eve with the "forbidden fruit" is the first event of the incarnation.

We have probably all experienced the importance of a word, a reading, a person, a music, to change and disrupt life. The Hopi Indians say that to just touch a stone in the course of a river changes the river for its entire life.

For our part, it is the meetings with fruit that we examine in the journey that follows. They have not all changed our lives, but they all modeled on one way or another the relationship that we have today with one of our primary food sources.

Fruit has appeared on our planet two hundred million years before Lucy and Toumaï and prepared to welcome us by offering us our first food. Advancing together between seduction, fear or indifference, did the fruit tame men, or were men charmed by fruit? Anyway, in the meantime we at the first breath of humanity, while fruits resolutely affirm their desire to be loved.

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La vie naît de la rencontre. C’est l’alliance de la graine et de ­l’humus qui fait germer la plante, le vent contre la voile qui fait progresser le bateau, et au contact de l’ovule, le grain de pollen et le spermatozoïde font naître le fruit et l’enfant. De même, dans notre culture occidentale, la rencontre d’Adam et Ève avec « le fruit défendu » représente la première manifestation de l’incarnation.

Nous avons sans doute tous éprouvé l’importance d’un mot, d’une lecture, d’une personne, d’une musique, pour changer et bouleverser la vie. Les Indiens Hopi disent qu’il suffit de toucher une pierre dans le cours d’une rivière pour que toute la vie de la rivière en soit changée.

Pour notre part, ce sont les rencontres avec les fruits que nous avons retenues dans le cheminement qui suit. Elles n’ont pas toutes bouleversé notre vie mais elles ont toutes modelé de près ou de loin la relation que nous avons aujourd’hui avec l’une de nos premières nourritures.

Les fruits sont apparus sur notre planète deux cents millions d’années avant Toumaï et Lucy et se sont préparés à nous accueillir en nous offrant notre première alimentation. Avançant de concert entre la séduction, la peur ou l’indifférence, les fruits ont-ils apprivoisé les hommes, les hommes ont-ils charmé les fruits ? Quoi qu’il en soit, en nous attendant au premier souffle de l’humanité, les fruits affirment résolument leur envie d’être aimés.

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By: Jean-Yves Maisonneuve(Author), Armelle Delaplace(Illustrator)
144 pages, colour illustrations
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