"Trois Villes saintes" is an essay written by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 author and Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize in Literature

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

 J. M. G. Le Clézio.

Subject

Men, three cities, Chancah, Tixcacal, Chun Pom, and the drought that attacks the freedom stifled by the silence of the gods who could speak and were silent. Employed by the Institute of Latin America in 1967, JMG Le is Clézio took deep passion for this region and for the Indians.This experience greatly impressed his work and changed his world view. For four years, from 1970 to 1974, he shared the lives of the Emberá speaking peoples

Emberá languages

Emberá is a group of languages spoken by 100,000 people in northwestern Colombia and southeastern Panama. It belongs to the Choco language family.Embera, Emperã, Empena, Eberã, Epena, etc...

in the heart of the Panamanian jungle.