	"Clochemerle" was written in 1934 and has been translated into twenty-six languages and sold several million copies. It was dramatised first in a 1947 film by Pierre Chenal and in 1972 by the BBC. He wrote two sequels: "Clochemerle Babylon" ("Clochemerle-Babylone", 1951), and "Clochemerle-les-Bains" (1963). In the United States, the Clochemerle books were published under the English titles "The Scandals of Clochemerle" (for "Clochemerle" in 1937) and "The Wicked Village" ("Clochemerle-Babylone", 1956).