PAGNOL Marcel [Aubagne, 1895 - Paris, 1974], French writer a - Lot 64

PAGNOL Marcel [Aubagne, 1895 - Paris, 1974], French writer and film-maker. Fanny. Autograph manuscripts [1931]; 58 in-4 or in-8 pages, mostly on school notebook leaves. Precious working manuscripts presenting unpublished versions of several scenes from the second part of the famous of the famous "Marseilles trilogy", featuring characters who would later disappear. These include a long scene taking place in front of Honorine the fishmonger's stall ("I've made her a scorpion fish that hasn't for eight days"), with contributions from customers and Honorine's sisters, Zoé and Claudine, as well as a scene in which Panisse the scene of Panisse asking for Fanny's hand, and dialogues between Honorine, her sisters, César and Fanny. With an autograph folder bearing the title "Fanny" and a subtitle: "Le concile des femmes". A dozen or so leaves show, on the verso, a few additions, the countdown of character lines or pages of the various acts, notes on the breakdown of the play, and sometimes financial calculations. Fanny premiered at the Théâtre de Paris in December 1931, before being adapted for film by Pagnol himself directed by Marc Allégret, the following year.