sentences:  After World War II he planned on writing a sequence of ten novels inspired by Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, in which he would depict characters from all strata of society rather than peasants, and contrast different moments in history by depicting the experiences of members of the same family a hundred years apart.But Giono only completed the four Hussard novels, "Mort d’un personnage" (1948)), "Le Hussard sur le Toit" (1951), "Le Bonheur fou" (1957), "Angelo" (1958).Henry Poulaille was the son of a carpenter and cane worker, who was orphaned at fourteen.