Le Chemin des écoliers (1946), literally "The Way of the Schoolboys," but translated as The Transient Hour, is a novel by French writer Marcel Aymé[1] that takes place during the German occupation of Paris.
The first is Travelingue (1948), set in the time of the Front Populaire; the third book, Uranus, focuses on post war France and the purge: the social cleansing which sought to discipline collaborators.
His sons, Frédéric and Antoine, unwittingly teach him how to live again by forcing him to accept more current notions of reality.
As their father becomes increasingly more corrupt, Frédéric and Antoine distribute anti-Nazi leaflets and profit from the black market.
[3][4] Le Chemin des écoliers has been translated into English as The Transient Hour by Eric Sutton for the Bodley Head in 1948.