'The True Wealth'; Occitan: La Veritable Riquesa) is a 1937 book by the French writer Jean Giono.
The aim was to live close to nature, which Giono viewed as an extension of the human rather than a place for Romantic refuge.
[1] In Les Vraies Richesses, Giono lays out his personal worldview and how it has developed, from his rejection of Christianity's renunciation of the body and his view of man as a "cosmic element" among others.
[4] In 2021, Samuel Piquet of Marianne called Les Vraies Richesses "an environmental manifesto" and "a book of astonishing modernity", which is both "questionable and sublime".
Despite questioning many parts of the book, Piquet wrote that "Giono's language makes us accept all the tales as true".