La Ville Dont Le Prince Est Un Enfant (play), La Ville Dont Le Prince Est Un Enfant
La Ville dont le prince est un enfant may refer to: * ''La Ville dont le prince est un enfant'' (play), a French play by Henry de Montherlant * ''La Ville dont le prince est un enfant'' (film), a 1997 French television film adapted from the play *''The Fire that Consumes ''The Fire that Consumes'' is an English translation of the 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant, ''La Ville dont le Prince est un enfant''. The play was translated by Vivian Cox with Bernard Miles, and staged at the London Wes ...

La Ville Dont Le Prince Est Un Enfant (play)
''La Ville dont le prince est un enfant'' is a play published in 1951–67 by the French dramatist Henry de Montherlant. The title ('"The City Whose Prince is a Child") is taken from Ecclesiastes 10:16: ''"Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!"'' Evolution of the theatrical work Henry de Montherlant was born on 20 April 1895, and the play was one of his first works, which he began writing under the title ''Serge Sandrier'' in 1912. He would go on developing the piece for four decades before eventually publishing it for the first time in 1951 and bringing out a definitive version in 1967. The play was inspired by events in Montherlant's adolescence, particularly his formative years at the ''Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix'', commonly known as the ''Collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly''. It looks at the difficulties in the life of André Sevrais as a young man aged 15–16 in a Catholic school in France and his friendship and love fo ...
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La Ville Dont Le Prince Est Un Enfant (film)
''La Ville dont le prince est un enfant'' is a 1997 made-for-television film adapted from a 1951 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant of the same title. The title, literally translated, ''The City Where the Prince is a Child'', is taken from Ecclesiastes 10:16: ''"Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!"'' The French-language film was subsequently released in North American markets on DVD in 2004 under the title, ''The Fire That Burns'', similar to the 1977 English language translation of the play produced in 1977 under the title, ''The Fire that Consumes''. Summary Philosophy student André Sevrais (played by Naël Marandin) attends a Catholic boys' school in Paris, where he becomes fast friends with his younger schoolmate, a little rebellious boy named Serge Souplier (played by Clément van den Bergh). This friendship between the two youngsters does not go unobserved by the Abbot of Pradts (played by Christophe Malavoy), wh ...
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