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BIOGRAPHYOF MARCEL PAGNOL

Marcel Pagnol (1895 – 1974) was a playwright, film-producerand novelist, at all of which he gained distinction. He was born in the Provençal town of Aubagne, about eleven miles from Marseille. His father, Joseph, was an “instituteur”, the more modest rank of teacher as compared with the more qualified “professeur” of the lycées. His mother, Augustine was a dressmaker. Marcel was the eldest child and he had two younger brothers, Paul and René and a younger sister, Germaine. Marcel’s youngest brother, René, was born in 1909 and so does not appear in “Le Château de ma mere”, which tells of two years in the lives of the Pagnol family - 1904 – 1905.

In 1900, Joseph Pagnol was appointed to a new teaching post at the École des Chartreux in Marseille and the family had to move from the country to the big city. However the appeal of country life stayed with them and during the school vacation of the summer of 1904, the family

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The places of life

Marcel Pagnol was born in Aubagne, at 16 cours Barthélémy, a few kilometers from Marseille where he soon moved with his parents. He spent his entire childhood and adolescence there and studied at Thiers high school. During the vacations, his father rented, with Uncle Jules, a house in the hills, the famous “Bastide Neuve” beyond the small village of La Treille. Marcel remained a Marseillais at heart.

In Marseille, I am still a child, in Paris, I am old…
Marcel Pagnol

Appointed teacher in Paris, a few years later, he wrote his first successful plays there. Thus “exiled” in the capital, he found and described Marseille in “MARIUS“. Marcel Pagnol lived in Paris on several occasions. But cinema brought him back to the South of France and to his “dear hills”. As early as the 1930s, he set up his laboratories and then his film studios in Marseille.

In 1941, he wanted to create a Cité du Cinéma in the region and bought the Château de la Buzine. He recognized it as the castle of “fear”

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Marcel Pagnol

Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France

"Pagnol" redirects here. For other uses, see Pagnol (disambiguation).

Marcel Paul Pagnol (, alsopah-NYAWL;^[1]French:[maʁsɛlpɔlpaɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur,^[2] 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 the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film.

Early life

Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph Pagnol^A and seamstress Augustine Lansot.^B^[3] He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles.^[4] Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine.

School years

In July 1904, the family rented the Bastide Neuve,^[3&