Au revoir, les enfants

Au revoir, les enfants (French: Goodbye, children) is a novel written by Louis Malle in 1987 in the form of a screenplay, and became a film in the same year.

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French - Novel - Louis Malle - 1987 - Screenplay

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The novel mirrors the childhood of the author. It is about a young boy named Julien Quentin, who attends a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France during World War II. Julien befriends a new student named Jean Bonnet. It is later learned that Bonnet is a Jew, who has been taken in by the school to hide him from the Gestapo. At the end of the book, Bonnet is captured and taken to a concentration camp and killed.

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Boarding school - Vichy France - World War II - Jew - Gestapo - Concentration camp

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