The Horseman on the Roof (orig. French Le Hussard sur le toit) is a 1951 adventure novel by French writer Jean Giono.[1] It tells the story of Angelo Pardi, a young Italian carbonaro colonel of hussars, caught up in the 1832 cholera epidemic in Provence.
In 1995, it was made into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.