Pagnol
Americannoun
noun
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French schoolchildren, taking a first stab at grown-up reading, often have a go at My Father's Glory by one of France's best-loved novelists, Marcel Pagnol.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2016
One imagines that other contemporary Village dweller S. J. Perelman reading it with a wince: where are the desultory dry cleaners and depressed delicatessen slicers in this Pagnol movie version of Village life?
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
Based on a Marcel Pagnol film, “The Baker’s Wife,” scripted by Joseph Stein, is a folk tale set in a gossipy village, much like Stein’s “Fiddler on the Roof.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
Who wouldn’t want to engage in a pleasurable, free exercise that could result in a photo book on the secrets of the Loire or an obscure novel by Marcel Pagnol?
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2014
"A practical joke," fumed Dramatist Marcel Pagnol, 75.
From Time Magazine Archive
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