However, Joseph runs into a former student who now has a job as maintenance man for a canal which runs through the gardens of several big, victorian houses. One of the owners catches them going through his garden. The watchman, a drunk, is very nasty. Louis Jouvet 32. Five years go by.
More years pass.
In the 1930s, when Pagnol was at his peak making films in Provence, he bought a big 1860s mansion to house his film company.