''The House on the Dune'' (French: ''La maison dans la dune'') is a 1932 novel by the French writer

Maxence Van Der Meersch Maxence Van der Meersch (4 May 1907 – 14 January 1951) was a French Flemish writer. Life Maxence, of delicate health, came from a relatively well off family — his father was an accountant. On 27 October 1918, he lost his sister, Sarah, who w ...

.Mosley p.193 It portrays the battle between

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and

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s along the French-Belgian border.

Adaptations

It has been turned into films on three occasions: * ''The House on the Dune'' (1934 film), a French film directed by Pierre Billon * ''The House on the Dune'' (1952 film), a French film directed by Georges Lampin * ''The House on the Dune'' (1988 film), a Belgian film directed by Michel Mees

References

Bibliography

* Philip Mosley. ''Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity''. SUNY Press, 2001. 1932 French novels French novels adapted into films French crime novels {{1930s-novel-stub