Marcel Pagnol Sergent Major dipped his pen in purple ink desks secular schools of the III Republic, this school taught. His best handwriting, he remembers and tells us the beauty of this amazing country that is Provence, brings to life the magic of writing, the shadows so loved, and says, as he has the secret, a Magic partridge. His father Joseph, his mother Augustine, his brother Paul, Uncle Jules appear in full light in their humanity with this affection that bind them all and this tremendous contrast between the clerical and Jules Joseph black hussar of the Republic. As for hunting partridges, it's a beautiful pages of childlike adventure and filial love have ever read. Marcel Pagnol, through its rediscovered childhood, tells a childhood all children. A kind of Proust's madeleine packed with warmth, color and tenderness. A beautiful book.