Marcel Pagnol wrote a play that he ultimately gave up on producing. It is now found in bookstores 70 years later, but adapted into a comic strip.
The play, Gaby, ou la belle et l'argent, is to be published Thursday by Michel Lafon. It appears on April 18, the 50th anniversary of his death. The full text of this play has been lying dormant in boxes for a long time. Nicolas Pagnl, the grandson of the author, explains to AFP that the piece is "very good, very funny, incisive, it has character." It dates from 1954, the year in which another heroine evolving in the same setting triumphed, the Cécile from the novel "Bonjour, Bonjour." The comic strip only uses part of the text of the play, which has never been edited.