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[[File:AymeUranus.jpg|thumb|1967 edition (publ. [[Livre de Poche]])]]<br />
'''''Uranus''''' (translated as ''The Barkeep of Blémont'') is a French novel by [[Marcel Aymé]] published in 1948.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/liberationoffran0000unse |title=The Liberation of France : image and event |date=1995 |place=Oxford; Washington, D.C.|publisher=Berg |isbn=978-1-85973-082-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Marcel Aymé Uranus |url=https://www.marcelayme.net/marcel_ayme/oeuvre/romans/uranus/uranus.html |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=www.marcelayme.net}}</ref> It is the third book in a trilogy which covers the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in France. The first is ''[[Travelingue]]'' (1948), set in the time of the ''[[Front Populaire]]''; the second is ''[[Le Chemin des écoliers (novel)|Le Chemin des écoliers]]'' (1946), set during the occupation. The third book, ''Uranus'', focuses on post-war France and the [[Épuration légale|purge]]: the social cleansing which sought to discipline collaborators. People were shaved, humiliated, beaten, and often killed without a fair trial.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lord |first=Graham |url=http://archive.org/details/shortstoriesofma0000lord |title=The short stories of Marcel Aymé |date=1980 |place=Nedlands |publisher=University of Western Australia Press |isbn=978-0-85564-180-1}}</ref><br />
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The true hero of the book, who is also the victim, is Léopold – owner of a coffee shop who discovers his passion for [[Jean Racine]] and for [[Andromaque]] thanks to lessons which, due to bombings of the school, must now take place in his establishment.<br />
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The novel was adapted as a film, ''[[Uranus (film)|Uranus]]'' by [[Claude Berri]] in 1990.<ref>{{Citation |last=Berri |first=Claude |title=Uranus |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100851/ |type=Comedy, Drama, History |publisher=DD Productions, Films A2, Investimage 2 |access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref> ''Le Chemin des écoliers'' was adapted as the film ''[[Way of Youth]]'' by [[Michel Boisrond]] in 1959.<br />
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