The Hussar on the Roof is an adventure novel written by Jean Giono , originally published inpublished by Gallimard 1 . It is part of the “Cycle Hussard”, that is to say, in the order of their writing:
- The stories of the demi-brigade
- Angelo
- Death of a character
- The Hussard on the roof
- Crazy Happiness
Because some of the characters of Hussard appear there, the cycle takes the name of stories of the demi-brigade .