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Original Title:	Clochemerle
ISBN:	2253005630 (ISBN13: 9782253005636)
Edition Language:	French
Series:	Clochemerle #1

Clochemerle (Clochemerle #1)

Gabriel Chevallier

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 435 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 512 Users | 73 Reviews

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Title	:	Clochemerle (Clochemerle #1)
Author	:	Gabriel Chevallier
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 435 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2004 by Le Livre de Poche (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Cultural. France. Classics

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Tout a commencé quand Barthélemy Piéchut, maire de Clochemerle-en-Beaujolais, dévoila à Ernest Tafardel, l'instituteur, son projet :« Je veux faire construire un urinoir, Tafardel. Un urinoir ! s'écria l'instituteur, tout saisi, tant la chose aussitôt lui parut d'importance. Le maire se méprit sur le sens de l'exclamation : Enfin, dit-il, une pissotière ! »Cette vespasienne, destinée, bien plus peut-être, à confondre Mme la baronne Alphonsine de Courtebiche, le curé Ponosse, le notaire Girodot et les suppôts de la réaction, qu'à procurer un grand soulagement à la gent virile de Clochemerle, sera édifiée tout près de l'église où Justine Putet, aride demoiselle, exerce une surveillance étroite. Dès sa publication en 1934, Clochemerle, chronique rabelaisienne, a connu un énorme succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti. C'est maintenant un classique de la littérature comique.

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my mind the entire time reading this

This is very funny and very French. It is set in a village where all the inhabitants seem to be sex-obsessed and somewhat eccentric. The trouble starts when a pissoir (public urinal) is erected in the village square.It was first published in 1934.

Witty and brutal at showing the village life, politics and pretty much everything else. While reading the book, I even googled Clochemerle to see, if it was a real place! The characters feel real and I enjoyed the author's vivid descriptions of the countryside.The book is a good read although not for everybody! It is not particularly fast paced and it took me a few months to actually read it.



I have to admit that I didn't finish this one. Not because it wasn't interesting and fun, but rather because I got interrupted for a few days and picking it back up (in French, which is not my native language) just got too difficult. I am, however, planning to get this in translation and try again - largely in order to see how much I missed in VO.

Some books dont work for the commuting reader. So this was a DNF. I would open the book on the trip to work, and there would be one set of characters having misadventures and a set of good looking women to set them on the wrong path. Then I would open the book on the way home, and there would be a different set of characters having a different collection of misadventures. By the time I got into that bunch, I would be home. But the next morning, a third set of pixilated nitwits would be up to

This is one of my all time favourites and, having leant it to somebody else (Paddy if you're reading this, it was you) i have not been able to find another without breaking the law. The synopsis of the plot is the fallout that follows the installation of a urinoir in a sleepy French village. The characters are beautifully observed and the description of events is mastefully understated. I need to find another copy so I can re-read this masterpiece fo French fiction.