sentences:  The location in which he chose to live back in his native Switzerland was the village of Hauterive, close to Neuchatêl, in a large old house with a terrace with old trees, a setting that provided all the backdrops he needed for his "Les Paraboles" project, that took him most of the four years he spent there.It became a book of thirty-two parables illustrated by 76 paintings, drawings and sketches.It was first published in 1908 in French, later in German, and an English edition in 1948.