Marie des Brebis

Just a few days old and wrapped in a wool blanket, Marie is found among a flock of sheep. From then on, she is known as "Marie des Brebis," Marie of the sheep. A warm-hearted farming family takes her in, and the vast meadows and rocky hills of the French Quercy become her home. As a shepherdess, her life is filled with the sounds of nature, the scent of animals, and the power of the seasons. Her trust in the goodness of this world is unshakeable; she withstands the blows of fate, experiences two world wars, and looks back gratefully on a dramatic century in the evening of her life. Marie shared her story with the successful French author Christian Signol, who shaped it into one of the most enchanting biographies of the 20th century.