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{{other uses|La Treille (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Carte-1877-La-Treille-Alfred-Saurel.png|thumb|300px|Detail of 1877 map of Marseille showing ''La Treille'' with neighbouring towns and villages and the twisting contours of the [[Canal de Marseille]]]]
'''La Treille''' ({{IPA|fr|la tʁɛj}}) is a [[Quarter (country subdivision)|''quartier'']] on the outskirts of the 11th [[Municipal arrondissements of France|''arrondissement'']] of [[Marseille]], in the Department of [[Bouches-du-Rhône]], France. It has approximately 900 inhabitants. At the centre of the ''quartier'' is the seventeenth century hillside village of La Treille.

==Overview==
La Treille became famous as the place where writer [[Marcel Pagnol]] spent his summer holidays during his childhood—at the ''Bastide Neuve''—and he is buried in the cemetery there.<ref name="Kirjasto">''Books and Writers''</ref>  This is also where ''La Pascaline''—the house where Pagnol started to write ''[[Souvenirs d'enfance]]'' (''[[La Gloire de mon père]]'' and ''[[Le Château de ma mère]]'')—is located.  Pagnol's early films used the village as a backdrop and its inhabitants as actors: it has only slightly changed since then.<ref name="Kirjasto"/> Behind the church, in the main square or ''placette'', is a small fountain, used as Manon's fountain in Pagnol's 1953 film version of [[Manon des Sources (1952 film)|Manon des Sources]].

The village is situated at the start of the range of hills containing the [[Garlaban]]. This countryside featured prominently in Pagnol's books about his childhood and is now known in France as ''La Pagnolie''. It can be explored on footpaths starting at the end of the ''chemin des Bellons'', the main street in the village. A section of the [[Canal de Marseille]] passes below the village, which is served by the public transport system of Marseille and accessible also from [[Aubagne]].<ref>{{citation|title=Walking in Provence: Alpes Maritimes, Var, Vaucluse and Northern Provence|first=Janette|last= Norton|publisher=Cicerone Press|year=2003|isbn=1852843829}}</ref>

==Gallery==
{{gallery|File:Marseille-LaTreille86.jpg|The village church in ''La Treille''
|File:Fontaine-La-Treille.jpg|Fountain in the village square of ''La Treille''
|File:Bastide-neuve76.jpg|The ''Bastide Neuve'' at ''La Treille'', Pagnol's boyhood holiday home
|File:Tombeau-Pagnol-La-Treille.jpg|Grave of Pagnol, with Latin [[epitaph]] "{{lang|la|Fontes amicos uxorem dilexit}}" (“He liked springs, his friends, and his wife”, from [[Virgil]])
}}

==Notes and references==
{{Reflist}}
* {{Books and Writers |id=pagnol |name=Marcel Pagnol }}

==External links==
{{commons category|La Treille}}
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/18911612@N08/3524982453/in/set-72157626698790569/lightbox/ Panoramic view of ''La Treille'']
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070518161006/http://www.gb-provence.com/circuits.htm ''Circuits Marcel Pagnol'']}}, detailed map of the walking routes near La Treille, devised by Georges Berni in the late 1970s

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[[Category:11th arrondissement of Marseille]]
[[Category:Quarters of Marseille]]


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