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Gabriel Chevallier
Clochemerle
Paris, Rieder, 1934.
An enormous popular success, Clochemerle was inspired by the village of Vaux-en-Beaujolais — now officially named Clochemerle-Vaux-en-Beaujolais — where the author spent his vacations. The novel's premise: the mayor's determination to build a public urinal in the center of the small village, near the church. This new “village amenity” becomes the focus of a fierce…
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