Marcel Pagnol
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- Birth Place
- Marcel Paul Pagnol 28 February 1895 Aubagne , Third French Republic
- Nationality
- French
LEGACY & ORIGINS
Occupation Author
Playwright
Film director
Nationality French
Notable works Marius
Manon des sources
The Water of the Hills
La Gloire de mon père
Le Château de ma mère
Spouse Simone Collin
(m. 1916; div. 1941)
Jacqueline Bouvier
(m. 1945–1974)
Partner Orane Demazis (1925–1937)
Josette Day (1939–1944)
Children 5
Website
marcel-pagnol.com
French and Francophone literature
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History
Marcel Paul Pagnol (/pəˈnjɒl, pæ-/, also US: /pɑːˈnjɔːl/ pah-NYAWL; French: [maʁsɛl pɔl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his prominence in multiple eminent mediums—memoir, novel, theatre and film.
Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph PagnolA and seamstress Augustine Lansot.B He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine.
Playwright
Film director
Nationality French
Notable works Marius
Manon des sources
The Water of the Hills
La Gloire de mon père
Le Château de ma mère
Spouse Simone Collin
(m. 1916; div. 1941)
Jacqueline Bouvier
(m. 1945–1974)
Partner Orane Demazis (1925–1937)
Josette Day (1939–1944)
Children 5
Website
marcel-pagnol.com
French and Francophone literature
by category
History
Marcel Paul Pagnol (/pəˈnjɒl, pæ-/, also US: /pɑːˈnjɔːl/ pah-NYAWL; French: [maʁsɛl pɔl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his prominence in multiple eminent mediums—memoir, novel, theatre and film.
Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph PagnolA and seamstress Augustine Lansot.B He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine.
Life & Career Details
Occupation Author
Playwright
Film director
Nationality French
Notable works Marius
Manon des sources
The Water of the Hills
La Gloire de mon père
Le Château de ma mère
Spouse Simone Collin
(m. 1916; div. 1941)
Jacqueline Bouvier
(m. 1945–1974)
Partner Orane Demazis (1925–1937)
Josette Day (1939–1944)
Children 5
Website
marcel-pagnol.com
French and Francophone literature
by category
History
Marcel Paul Pagnol (/pəˈnjɒl, pæ-/, also US: /pɑːˈnjɔːl/ pah-NYAWL; French: [maʁsɛl pɔl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his prominence in multiple eminent mediums—memoir, novel, theatre and film.
Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph PagnolA and seamstress Augustine Lansot.B He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine.
Playwright
Film director
Nationality French
Notable works Marius
Manon des sources
The Water of the Hills
La Gloire de mon père
Le Château de ma mère
Spouse Simone Collin
(m. 1916; div. 1941)
Jacqueline Bouvier
(m. 1945–1974)
Partner Orane Demazis (1925–1937)
Josette Day (1939–1944)
Children 5
Website
marcel-pagnol.com
French and Francophone literature
by category
History
Marcel Paul Pagnol (/pəˈnjɒl, pæ-/, also US: /pɑːˈnjɔːl/ pah-NYAWL; French: [maʁsɛl pɔl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his prominence in multiple eminent mediums—memoir, novel, theatre and film.
Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph PagnolA and seamstress Augustine Lansot.B He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine.
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