The statutory grounds is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating contemporary French novels, and has already achieved in his country the status of cult. A traveler arrives in the region of the statutory grounds, where most of the inhabitants are gardeners who grow plants rather than statues. The traveler is slowly learning the ways of this strange place, how grown statues, how to help them be born, how pruned, and how to cure them when sick or kill them, and record your observations in a notebook . While at first believes he has found an ideal civilization, a kind of lost paradise, soon he realizes that something is missing: women are not seen anywhere and no one wants to talk about them. Gradually, the traveler knows the dark parts of this decadent culture, dominated by rail and archaic traditions, inequality, injustice, poverty ... and hear about a region in the north, where a nomad prince, a former gardener it reneged on its origins, has created a new society of savage warriors. The traveler interview with the prince and discovers that it is preparing war against the region of the statutory grounds: a wave of destruction threatens to obliterate, and the story itself, the ancient legacy of gardeners. In the statutory grounds, Jacques Abeille has created a fantastic philosophical world where the reader will see reflected, in a beautifully distorted way, some of the most secret desires and fears that underpin human existence in society as we know it today.