{"id":2670,"date":"2025-06-13T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/exhibition\/the-first-10000-trees-planted-by-elgear-bouffier\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:43:57","slug":"the-first-10000-trees-that-elzeard-bouffier-planted","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/exhibition\/the-first-10000-trees-that-elzeard-bouffier-planted\/","title":{"rendered":"The First 10.000 Trees That Elz\u00e9ard Bouffier Planted"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2670\" class=\"elementor elementor-2670 elementor-1566\" data-elementor-post-type=\"exhibition\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6221baa e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6221baa\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cb099a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cb099a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><strong>2021, dark green colour pencil Berol on paper, 80 x 125 cm.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3357066 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3357066\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e00c451 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e00c451\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><i>About forty years ago I went on a long journey, on foot, through the uplands, utterly unknown to tourists, of the ancient region where the Alps extend into Provence.The area is bounded in the south-east and the south by the middle reaches of the river Durance, between Sisteron and Mirabeau; in the north by the upper course of the Dr\u00f4me, from its source down as far as Die; and in the west by the plains of the Comtat Venaissin and the foothills of Mont Ventoux. It includes all the northern part of the department of the Basses-Alpes, the south of the Dr\u00f4me, and a small enclave of the Vaucluse.<\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i><sup>1<\/sup><\/i><\/span><\/p><p class=\"p1\">It was there that the shepherd Elz\u00e9ard Bouffier, a solitary man of few words, planted the first 10,000 oaks between 1907 and 1910, and continued planting until he was admitted to the Banon rest home, where he passed away peacefully in 1947.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p class=\"p1\">Elz\u00e9ard Bouffier managed to create an entire forest of oak and beech trees all on his own, that the French authorities declared to be self-seeded. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\"><sup>1 <\/sup><\/span>Jean Giono<span class=\"s2\">,<i> <\/i><\/span><i>The Man who Planted Trees, <\/i>trnsl. by Barbara Bray, Harvill Secker, 1996<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44b37e2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"44b37e2\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-052af63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"052af63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"The First 10.000 Trees That Elz\u00e9ard Bouffier Planted, 2021\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MjY3MSwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2doYWRqaW1pY2hhbGlzLmdyXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI1XC8wNlwvMS5qcGcifQ%3D%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1342\" height=\"871\" src=\"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-2671\" alt=\"The First 10.000 Trees That Elz\u00e9ard Bouffier Planted, 2021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1.jpg 1342w, https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1342px) 100vw, 1342px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":3671,"parent":0,"menu_order":200,"template":"","exhibition_categories":[],"class_list":["post-2670","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/2670\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_categories?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}