Gabriel Chevallier

Clochemerle was written in 1934 and has been translated into twenty-six languages and sold several million copies. It was dramatised first in a 1947 film by Pierre Chenal and a 1972 television series by the BBC. He wrote two sequels: Clochemerle Babylon (Clochemerle-Babylone, 1951), and Clochemerle-les-Bains (1963). In the United States, the Clochemerle books were published under the English titles The Scandals of Clochemerle (for Clochemerle in 1937), The Wicked Village (Clochemerle-Babylone, 1956) and (Clochemerle-les-Bains, 1965).

His novel La Peur [fr] (Fear) published in 1930 drew upon his own experiences and formed a damning indictment of the war; although the author's attitude became an example of "the standard version of World War I", it was shocking to the post-war society of France. It was not published in English until 2011. New York Times reviewed the novel in 2014 as "unadorned yet memorable" and "savagely frank", "radioactive with pure terror".

Others translated into English include Sainte Colline (1937), Cherry (Ma Petite Amie Pomme, 1940), The Affairs of Flavie or The Euffe Inheritance (Les Héritiers Euffe, 1945) and Mascarade (1948).

Other books in French include Clarisse Vernon, Propre à Rien, Chemins de Solitude and Le Petit Général.

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