Clochemerle

Clochemerle is a French satirical novel by Gabriel Chevallier which was first published in 1934. The book is set in a fictional French village called "Clochemerle", inspired by Vaux-en-Beaujolais, and situated in the Beaujolais region. The book is a comic work, satirising the conflicts between Catholics and Republicans in the French Third Republic by telling the story of the installation of a urinal in Clochemerle's village square.

The work has been translated in various editions and adapted into film and television series, notably by the BBC in 1972.

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