Angelo Pardi

Angelo Pardi is a fictional character created by the French writer Jean Giono. A hussar colonel from Piedmont, Pardi experiences a series of adventures in Provence and Italy in the 1830s and 1840s. He is the main character in the novels The Horseman on the Roof from 1951 and The Straw Man from 1957, as well as Angelo, which is an earlier version of the story that became The Horseman on the Roof. They are part of Giono's unfinished Hussard cycle, originally intended to tell the Pardi family's story in the 19th and 20th centuries through ten novels, the first five of which were supposed to be about Angelo Pardi. The Horseman on the Roof was the basis for a 1995 film with the same name where Olivier Martinez plays Pardi.

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