La Treille
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La Treille is a quartier on the outskirts of the 11th arrondissement of Marseille, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It has approximately 900 inhabitants. At the centre of the quartier is
The village church in La Treille
Fountain in the village square of La Treille
The Bastide Neuve at La Treille, Pagnol's boyhood holiday home
Grave of Pagnol, with Latin epitaph "Fontes amicos uxorem dilexit" (“He cherished springs, his friends, and his wife”, from Virgil)
My Father's Glory
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My Father's Glory is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol. Its sequel is My Mother's Castle. It is the first of four volumes in Pagnol's Souvenirs d'enfance series. There is also a 1990 film
La Treille
…the Bastide Neuve—and he is buried in the cemetery there. This is also where La Pascaline—the house where Pagnol started to write Souvenirs d'enfance (La Gloire de mon père and Le Château de ma mère)—is located. Pagnol's early films used the village as a backdrop and its inhabitants as actors: it has only slightly changed…
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