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Ciclic is the regional agency for the promotion of books,

picturing and digital literacy. Its mission is to liven up the book

and literary life network in the Centre region in supporting

the 1500 professionals of the region in their various projects :

authors, libraries, bookshops and publishing houses, book

craftsmen and artists, community or cultural associations

which are involved in the book sector. It remains a delicate

area in which readers and book-lovers are essential links.

One can only be sensitive to the Centre region exceptional

heritage : about twenty writer’s houses and literary museums

opened to the public, various places of creation for the writers

internship programs, libraries which work in highlighting

the collections they keep, exhibitions, literary escapades and

itineraries, meetings with authors.

Visitors from here and abroad, you are welcome to meet with the

writers whose work you have still to discover, or it may be the authors

you like, and to visit with your friends and family the places that

inspired them. The Centre region is full of treasures you just have to

be guided to.

We hope the following information, that has been gathered in

collaboration with the National Federation of writers’ houses and

literary heritage, will contribute to this discovery, will reinforce the

links between these literary places in order to create a dynamic

network and will encourage a large number of visitors to travel all over

this region to which many great literary names, past and present, are

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Châteaudun

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Issoudun

Le Blanc

Loches

Montargis

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Pithiviers

Romorantin-Lanthenay

Saint-Amand-Montrond

Tours

Vierzon

La Châtre

Orléans

Vendôme

Bourges

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Writer internship programs p 26/27

22 Maison des écritures23 Résidence d’auteur littérature jeunesse24 Les mille univers25 Triages Art et littérature26 Domaine national de Chambord27 Résidence Chapitre nature28 Abbaye de La Prée 29 Domaine du Magny

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30 Bibliothèque municipale de Tours31 Bibliothèque universitaire de Tours32 Centre d’études supérieures

de la Renaissance33 Bibliothèque municipale de Bourges34 Bibliothèque intercommunale de La Châtre35 Médiathèque de Châteauroux36 Médiathèque d’Orléans

37 Bibliothèque du Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans

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38 Amis de Ronsard et du Prieuré Saint-Cosme39 Amis de Rabelais et de la Devinière40 Amis de René Boylesve41 Amis de Pierre Halet42 Association de gestion des intérêts

littéraires d’Épineuil43 Amis du musée Henry de Monfreid44 Association culture et animation

dionysienne Maurice Genevoix45 Amis de Max Jacob46 Itinéraire Gaston Couté47 Amis de Patrice de la Tour du Pin48 Amis de Marcel Proust et Amis de Combray49 Amis de la Ferté-Vidame50 Amis de Maurice Rollinat51 Fédération des maisons d’écrivain

et des patrimoines littéraires

Beauce - Vendômois area

1 Agrippa d’Aubigné . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 9

2 Alfred de Musset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 9

3 Marcel Proust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 10

4 Pierre de Ronsard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 11

5 Saint-Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 11

Berry area

6 6b Alain-Fournier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 13

7 Marguerite Audoux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 14

8 Henry de Monfreid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 14

9 9b George Sand ........................................... p 15

Orléanais area

10 Gaston Couté . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 17

11 Max Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 17

12 Maurice Genevoix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 18

13 Charles Péguy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 19

14 Patrice de La Tour du Pin . . . . . . . . p 19

Touraine area

15 Honoré de Balzac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 21

16 René Boylesve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 22

17 Honorat de Bueil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 22

18 René Descartes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 23

19 François Rabelais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 24

20 Pierre de Ronsard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 25

21 Pierre Halet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 26

An active and lively network which encourages the junction between literary heritage and contemporary writings via a great diversity of cultural actors and authors.

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. . . . . . . .François Rabelais

. . . . . . . .Agrippa d’Aubigné

. . . . . . . .René Descartes

. . . . . . . .Honoré de Balzac

. . . . . . . .Alfred de Musset

Writers over the years and centuries…

François Rabelais 1494-1553

Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585

Agrippa d’Aubigné 1552-1630

Honorat de Bueil, dit Racan 1589-1670

René Descartes 1596-1650

Saint-Simon 1675-1755

Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850

George Sand 1804-1876

Alfred de Musset 1810-1857

Marguerite Audoux 1863-1937

René Boylesve 1867-1926

Marcel Proust 1871-1922

Charles Péguy 1873-1914

Max Jacob 1876-1944

Henry de Monfreid 1879-1974

Gaston Couté

Alain Fournier

Maurice Genevoix 1890-1980

Patrice de La Tour du Pin 1911-1975

Pierre Halet 1924-1996

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. . . . . . . .Honorat de Bueil, dit Racan

. . . . . . . .Saint-Simon

. . . . . . . .Marguerite Audoux

. . . . . . . .Pierre de Ronsard

. . . . . . . .George Sand

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. . . . . . . .Marcel Proust

. . . . . . . .Max Jacob

. . . . . . . .Gaston Couté

. . . . . . . .Maurice Genevoix

. . . . . . . .Pierre Halet

Writers over the years and centuries…

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François Rabelais 1494-1553

Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585

Agrippa d’Aubigné 1552-1630

Honorat de Bueil, dit Racan 1589-1670

René Descartes 1596-1650

Saint-Simon 1675-1755

Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850

George Sand 1804-1876

Alfred de Musset 1810-1857

Marguerite Audoux 1863-1937

René Boylesve 1867-1926

Marcel Proust 1871-1922

Charles Péguy 1873-1914

Max Jacob 1876-1944

Henry de Monfreid 1879-1974

Gaston Couté

Alain Fournier

Maurice Genevoix 1890-1980

Patrice de La Tour du Pin 1911-1975

Pierre Halet 1924-1996

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. . . . . . . .Patrice de la Tour du Pin

. . . . . . . .Henry de Monfreid

. . . . . . . .Charles Péguy

. . . . . . . .René Boylesve

. . . . . . . .Alain Fournier

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BEAuCE - VENDôMOIS AREA

Eure-et-Loir

Loir-et-Cher

Marcel ProustHouse of Aunt Léonie

Saint-SimonEspace Saint-Simon

Agrippa d’AubignéCastle of Talcy

Pierre de RonsardLa Possonnière Manor-house

Alfred de MussetBonaventure Manor-house

Chartres

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Practical information

Maison de Bonaventure Le Gué du Loir - 41100 Mazangé 02 54 72 07 43

Owner and administrator : Private ownership

Opening days and times : July, August and September : please call for further information on opening days and times

Bonaventure Manor-house / Mazangé

The Bonaventure Manor-house is composed of buildings dating from the 15th to the 17th centuries. In 1537, the manor-house became part of the Musset family’s estate when the daughter of Nicolas Girard de Salmet (he was François 1st ‘s barber and surgeon) married Claude Musset, jurist and lieutenant of the bailiff of Blois. The Musset family owned the manor-house for more than three centuries. Alfred de Musset stayed there with his father and his brother in 1822.

In 2010, to celebrate the writer’s birth bicentenary, many conferences, meetings and tours took place in the Vendômois area, as well as great exhibition in Blois.

2Alfred de Musset / 1810-1857

This 16th century seigniorial mansion is famous in the history of literature and invites its visitors to a journey back in time. During Renaissance, the Castle of Talcy was owned by Bernard Salviati, father of Cassandre, muse of Ronsard, and grand-father of Diane who inspired the young Agrippa d’Aubigné. The Talcy estate remains the evidence of a centre of intellectual sociability in the 15th century, and even more in the 19th, when Philippe-Albert Stapfer’s family (he was the first french translator of Goethe’s writings) moved in the castle. « Dans le parc de Talcy, j’ai dressé deux plançons – Sur qui le temps faucheur ni l’ennuyeuse estorse – Des filles de la nuit jamais n’aura de force – Et non plus que mes vers n’éteindra leur renoms…» L’hécatombe à Diane.

The estate has become productive again and its garden and orchard have been completely rearranged according to lists of ancient varieties that had been found in the castle’s archives.

Castle of Talcy / Talcy

Château de Talcy - 41370 Talcy - 02 54 81 03 01 http://talcy.monuments-nationaux.fr

Owner and administrator : Centre des monuments nationaux

Opening days and times : From 2/05 to 4/09 : every day from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm From 5/09 to 30/04 : every day from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5pm Closed on January 1st, May 1st and December 25th Closed on Tuesdays from 01/10 to 31/03

Free admission for visitors under 18

Tours and events : Free or guided tours


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« Et comme dans ce jeu où les Japonais s’amusent à tremper dans un bol de porcelaine rempli d’eau, de petits morceaux de papier […] tout Combray et ses environs, tout cela qui prend forme et solidité, est sorti, ville et jardins, de ma tasse de thé », Du côté de chez Swann (1913).

The house of Aunt Léonie was actually Jules and Elisabeth Amiot’s, Marcel Proust’s aunt and uncle on his father’s side. As a child, from six to nine years old, he spent his holidays there and the house then became an inspiring place that would lead him to writing his major work À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927).

One can first notice the little bells on the gate before entering the small garden full of flowers, lined with the orangery and the Turkish bath. One falls at once beneath the spell of the mosaics of the house’s front where the half-timbered style had been abandoned to favour the oriental one. This atmosphere is also obvious in the house’s living-room.

On the top floor, a permanent exhibition of photos by Paul Nadar brings back Proust’s world to life. Time seems to stand still in this house though it keeps living through the writer’s novels. In 1971, the village of Illiers, which became «Combray» in Marcel Proust’s works, took the name known nowadays by the entire world.

House of Aunt Léonie - Marcel Proust Museum / Illiers-Combray

Maison de tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust 4 rue du Dr Proust - BP 20025 28120 Illiers-Combray 02 37 24 30 97 - [email protected] http://marcelproust.pagesperso-orange.fr

Owner and administrator : Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray

Opening days and times : From 16/01 to 30/06 and from 1/09 to 15/12 : every day except Mondays from 2.15 pm to 5 pm From 1/07 to 31/08 : every day except Mondays from 10.45 am to noon and from 2.15 pm to 5 pm Annual holidays from December 15th to January 15th

Free admission for children under 12

Tours and events : Free or guided tours. Hawthorn days with readings, conferences, meetings and writing workshops

Literary escapade : Access to the Pré Catelan garden at Illiers- Combray by the lane following the Loir This exotic garden was conceived by Jules Amiot and became Swann’s garden in the writer’s novels


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Pierre de Ronsard was born on September 11th, 1524, at la Possonnière where he spent the major part of his childhood. The surrounding countryside was his first source of inspiration and several of his poems celebrate the Vendômois area. The church of Couture, the Bellerie Fountain, the woods of Gastine and L’Isle verte can also be found in his works.

La Possonnière manor-house is a charming and quiet place with its modern gardens as a tribute to the poet. In addition to the vegetable garden, the visitors will discover an impressive collection of roses, of old and modern varieties.

Pierre de Ronsard / 1524-1585

Manoir de la Possonnière 41800 Couture-sur-Loir - 02 54 72 40 05 [email protected] www.pays-de-ronsard.com

Owner and administrator : Communauté de communes du Pays de Ronsard

Opening days and times : From mid-June to mid-September : every day from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2.30 pm to 7 pm, except on Tuesdays from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2.30 pm to 7 pm From 01/04 to 15/06 and from 15/09 to 31/10 : Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 2 pm to 6 pm


Tours and events : Free tours or guided tours on the manor architecture and Ronsard’s history Various activities, especially for schools, during Taste Week - Cuttings fair


La Possonnière Manor-house / Couture-sur-Loir

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Louis of Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, was very young when he arrived at la Ferté-Vidame, an estate bought by his father after Louis XIII’s advice. It was there that Louis XIV ‘s famous memorialist wrote his memoirs. During his whole life, Saint-Simon came to la Ferté-Vidame to seek the peace of mind he could not achieve in Paris or in Versailles. Saint-Simon who was very attached to this estate declared that « there was some spirit of seigniory that was still pulsing at la Ferté », and this made each of his stays all the more precious to him. In this place that still preserves his memory, he gathered the important testimonies on his family and his life in Versaille. Between 1739 and 1753, he wrote his famous « Mémoires », which were published more than a century later.

The Pavillon Saint-Dominique offers a great display of pictures and documents on the famous writer, as well as on Jean-Joseph de Laborde (1724-1794), financier and patron for the estate and the town.

Espace Saint-Simon Pavillon Saint-Dominique 28340 La Ferté-Vidame 02 37 37 68 59

Owner : Conseil général d’Eure-et-Loir

Administrator : Syndicat d’initiative de la Ferté-Vidame

Opening days and times : Please call for further information

Tours and events : Tours with audio-guides and IPOD, available at the Tourist Office

Tours for groups on request

Book fair and Saint-Simon award ceremony on September

Practical informationEspace Saint-Simon / La Ferté-Vidame

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George SandNohant Estate

Marguerite AudouxMarguerite Audoux Museum

Alain-FournierHouse-School of the Magnificent Meaulnes

Henry de MonfreidHenry de Monfreid Museum

Alain-FournierNative house

Alain-FournierHistorimage Museum

George SandVallée Noire Museum

ChâteaurouxIssoudun

Le Blanc

Saint-Amand-Montrond

Vierzon

La Châtre

Bourges

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Maison-École du Grand Meaulnes Place de la mairie - 18360 Épineuil-le-Fleuriel 02 48 63 04 82 - [email protected] www.grandmeaulnes.eu

Owner : Commune d’Épineuil-le-Fleuriel

Administrator : AGILE Association (Association pour la gestion des intérêts littéraires d’Épineuil)

Opening days and times : From 01/04 to 30/06 and from 01/09 to 31/10 : every day except Tuesdays from 10 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6 pm From 01/07 to 31/08 : every day from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm - For groups, opening on request every day from 02/01 to 23/12


Tours and events : Guided or audio-guided tours Primary school certificate, the Magnificent Meaulnes dictation and a school of philosophy

Literary escapade : Visit (only on request) in La Chapelle d’Angillon of the house where Alain-Fournier and his sister Isabelle Rivière were born

The house-school of the Magnificent Meaulnes is an image of what school during the 3rd République looked like, as well as a place of literary inspiration in being the setting of one of the most famous French novels. The house was recreated in order to look like it was in 1891, when the young Henri Alban Fournier arrived with his parents who were teachers : « a long red house, with five window doors, under Virginia creepers, at the end of the burg. » One can also visit the old town hall, the two classrooms and the teacher’s apartment.

The story of the Magnificent Meaulnes starts in Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. This world-famous novel invites the readers to travel and to find one’s self through Alain-Fournier’s mysterious and poetic universe. « Mon livre sera un va-et-vient du rêve à la réalité. » Le Grand Meaulnes (1913).

House-School of the Magnificent Meaulnes / Épineuil-le-Fleuriel


A space dedicated to the writers from the Centre region who fought during the Great War has just opened. One can learn about the life of the soldier Alain-Fournier and of his fellow writers (Charles Péguy, Louis Pergaud, Jacques Rivière…). Many photographs, objects and documents, as well as a slide show, pay tribute to these men with shattered destinies.

Musée Historimage Domaine de la Grande-Garenne 18330 Neuvy-sur-Barangeon 02 48 52 64 00 - www.grande-garenne.com

Opening days and times : Opened from 2 pm to 6 pm Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays


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Marguerite Audoux / 1863-1937

Musée Marguerite Audoux Place de la Résistance - 18700 Aubigny-sur-Nère 02 48 81 50 07 - www.aubigny.net

Owner and administrator : Commune d’Aubigny-sur-Nère

Opening days and times : From Easter holiday to 30/06 and from 01/09 to 31/10 : from 2.30 pm to 6 pm, only week-ends and public holidays From 01/07 to 03/08 : every day from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm


Tours and events : Free tour on the life of Marguerite Audoux

Marguerite Donquichotte - who would become Marguerite Audoux - was born in 1863 in Sancoins. As an orphan, she was placed in care in Bourges where she lived a painful childhood. She worked as a shepherdess at the Berrué farm in Sainte-Montaine where she discovered literature in an old attic of the farm.

When she was 18, she came to Paris and lived on little sewing works. She then began to write to forget her solitary life. Supported by André Gide, Léon-Paul Fargue, Charles-Louis Philippe or Jean Giraudoux, Marguerite Audoux achieved her writing ambitions at the age of fourty when her novel Marie-Claire (1910) was awarded the Prix Femina in 1910. This autobiographical novel in which she evoked her difficult childhood was a great success. Ten years later, she published L’Atelier de Marie-Claire (1920) in which she described her work in a sewing workshop.

Marguerite Audoux Museum / Aubigny-sur-Nère


Henry de Monfreid was an extraordinary character, an adventurer as well as a writer. He was successively a dairyman, a coffee wholesaler in Abyssinia, a pearl diver, a firearms and hashish dealer, a spy, a war journalist, a painter in watercololours and a photographer.

After his encounter with Joseph Kessel, he decided to publish the stories of his adventures. His most famous work, Les secrets de la Mer Rouge (1932), was adapted for the movies and television.

In 1948, this great traveler settled in Ingrandes, in the Brenne region. The museum sits next to the house where the writer lived during 27 years and died in 1974. The museum displays a reconstruction of the rest and writing rooms in the writer’s house of Obock, in Somalia.

Henry de Monfreid Museum / Ingrandes

Musée Henry de Monfreid 1 rue Henry de Monfreid - 36300 Ingrandes 02 54 28 67 98 [email protected] www.henrydemonfreid.com

Owner : Commune d’Ingrandes

Administrator : Association des amis du musée Henry de Monfreid

Opening days and times : From 01/04 to 30/09 : Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 3 pm to 6 pm ; Saturdays and Sundays, from 3 pm to 7 pm

Free admission for children under 12 (except for groups)

Tours and events : Free or guided tours - Public readings and projection followed by debates


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The museum displays memorabilia, literary works and letters by George Sand.

One can admire the only known portrait of George Sand with her husband Casimir Dudevant by François Biard, an artist from Lyon.

The name of Vallée Noire was given by George Sand to the surrounding region of La Châtre : « C’est un pays de petite propriété et c’est à son morcellement qu’il doit son harmonie (…), j’aime mieux ces petits lots divisés où subsistent les familles indépendantes, que des grandes terres où le cultivateur n’est pas chez lui, et où rien ne manque, si ce n’est l’homme » La Vallée Noire (1846)

Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire 71 rue Venose - 36400 La Châtre 02 54 48 36 79 - [email protected]

Owner and administrator : Commune de La Châtre

Opening days and times : February/March/November/December: every day except Tuesdays, from 2 pm to 5 pm - April/October : every day except Tuesdays from 2 pm to 6.30 pm - May/June/September : every day except Tuesdays and Sunday mornings from 10 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6.30 pm - July/August : Every day except Sunday mornings from 10 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6.30 pm - Annual closing dates : 01/01, 01/05, 25/12 and 26/12


Tours and events : Thematic, guided or free tours - Exhibitions


Domaine de George Sand - 36400 Nohant-Vic 02 54 31 06 04 - www.monuments-nationaux.fr

Owner and administrator : Centre des monuments nationaux

Opening days and times : Every day - From 01/09 to 30/09 and from 01/04 to 31/04 : from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm - From 01/10 to 31/10 : from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5.30 pm - From 02/11 to 31/03 : from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 1.30 pm to 5 pm - From 02/05 to 30/06 : from 9.15 am to 12.15 pm and from 2 pm to 6.30 pm - From 01/07 to 31/08 : from 9.30 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6.30 pm - Annual closing days : 01/01, 01/05, 04/11, 11/11, and 25/12


Tours and events : Guided tours Debates, readings, meetings and festivals

Literary escapade : Villa Algira in Gargilesse, refuge to George Sand and Alexandre Manceau (Gargilesse Tourist Office : 02 54 47 85 06) Book collection at La Châtre Public library

Built at the end of the 18th century for the governor of Vierzon, the mansion of Nohant was first purchased in 1793 by Madame Dupin de Franceuil, George Sand’s grandmother, who conceived a vast park around the house. Little Aurore Dupin spent her childhood and adolescence in this setting which was a place of creation and intellectual life that cannot be separated from her work. George Sand wrote there and received a lot of famous guests such as Balzac, Chopin, Flaubert, Delacroix.

The house’s interior is still the one the writer knew until she died : the dining room, the blue bedroom, the small theater and the puppet theater.

The estate’s garden received the seal of « noteworthy garden ». It evokes the strong bound between the writer and nature and botany : « J’avais la maison de mes souvenirs pour y abriter les futurs souvenirs de mes enfants. » Histoire de ma vie (1847-1854).

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Maurice GenevoixMaurice Genevoix Museum

Maurice GenevoixLa Marine de Loire Museun

Max JacobMax Jacob HouseGaston Couté

Meung-sur-Loire Town Museum

Patrice de La Tour du PinCastle of the Bignon

Charles PéguyCharles Péguy Centre

Loiret

La Loire

Montargis

Pithiviers

Orléans

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Musée municipal « La Monnaye » 22 rue des remparts - 45130 Meung-sur-Loire 02 38 22 53 36 - [email protected] www.meung-sur-loire.comOwner and administrator : Commune de Meung-sur-LoireOpening days and times : Wednesdays, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm - Fridays, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm - Saturdays from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm - Sundays from 3 pm to 6 pm Closed during public and Christmas holidays Free admissionTours and events : Free tours or guided tours on request Temporary exhibitions - Gaston Couté Days (in September) : concerts, shows, exhibitions and activities about the poet and songwriterLiterary escapade : The Gaston Couté itinerary, cultural circuit. www.itineraire-gaston-coute.com for further information

Office de tourisme Val d’Or et Forêt 44 rue orléanaise - 45730 Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire 02 38 35 79 00 - [email protected] www.tourisme-loire-foret.comOwner and administrator : Owned by the town and managed by the Communauté de communesOpening days and times : From 01/10 to 31/03 : from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 1.30 pm to 5 pm (closed on Tuesday mornings, Sundays and on public holidays) From 01/04 to 30/09 : from 9 am to 12.30 pm and from 1.30 pm to 6 pm from Monday to Saturday ; on Tuesdays, opening at 10.30 am and closed on Sundays and public holidays except during summer holidays Free admissionLiterary escapade : Max Jacob collection at Orléans Multimedia library ; graphic works and illustrated books at the library of the Orléans Beaux-Arts Museum

Gaston Couté, born in Beaugency, spent his whole childhood in Meung-sur-Loire. He was a libertarian poet and songwriter who started his career as an artist in Orléans. One of his works, Le champ de naviots, made him decide to go to Paris where he performed on stage in the Montmartre cabarets as well as in Bruxelles and London. In 1910, he started writing in committed reviews such as « La Barricade » and « La Guerre sociale ».In his texts, often written in patois from the Beauce, Gaston Couté denounced injustices and social misery by depicting the hard life of the popular classes : Le foin qui presse. The museum also highlights the writer’s unknown talent as a draughtsman with a collection of original and unpublished illustrations and caricatures.

Max Jacob, who was seen as an uncontested fanciful magician of avant-garde art in the same way as Picasso and Apollinaire and who converted to catholicism in 1909, took refuge in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire from 1921 to 1927 then permanently in 1936. He was arrested in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire in 1944 and sent to Drancy concentration camp where he died some time after in spite of his friends’s attempts - especially Jean Cocteau’s - to secure his release.

Max Jacob came to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire to escape from Paris. He yearned for quietness and work. He remains this « poet, comical like a dream » who left a major poetic work, characterized by the marriage of the burlesque with mysticism. He became famous in 1916 with Le cornet à dés.

This exhibition which recounts Max Jacob’s life offers a collection of photographs, books and a few rare works.

« La Monnaye » Town Museum / Meung-sur-Loire

Max Jacob House / St Benoît-sur-Loire

Gaston Couté / 1880-1911

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Maurice Genevoix Museum / Saint-Denis-de-l’Hôtel


Musée Maurice Genevoix Place du Cloître 45550 Saint-Denis-de-l’Hôtel 02 38 59 12 80

Owner and administrator : Commune de Saint-Denis-de-l’Hôtel

Opening days and times : From November to March : Saturdays from 4 pm to 5.30 pm, Sundays from 10 am to noon and from 2 pm to 5.30 pm

From April to October : Saturdays from 4 pm to 6 pm, Sundays and public Holidays from 10 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6 pm

Free admission

Tours and events : Free or guided tours, on request for groups

Temporary exhibitions, literary cafés and debates

Literary escapade : Les Vernelles : garden and house of Maurice Genevoix (only on request)

Musée de la Marine de Loire in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, where a room is dedicated to Maurice Genevoix (02 38 46 84 46)

The Genevoix House is located in Saint-Denis-de-l’Hôtel, on the hillside dominating the Loire, near the Vernelles estate, very close to Sologne.

The Loire and Sologne deeply influenced the young Maurice and often inspired the writer. He spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, studied à Pothier high school in Orléans, then at the École normale supérieure.

In 1914, Wold War One threw him in the middle of the fighting as a lieutenant. He was seriously wounded in 1915 at the Éparges, in the Meuse region. His tribute to the soldiers, Ceux de 14 (1949) made him known to the general public. After his novel Raboliot was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1925, he settled in the Vernelles which became his favourite hangout, a few years later. It is in his office he wrote the major part of his works and from there that he contemplated « his » Loire : « c’est que je l’aime, je l’aime pour la beauté dont elle comble mes yeux, pour les courbes molles de ses rives, pour les grèves ardentes que le soleil fait trembler, les grèves mauves à l’ombre des osiers, les grèves bleues sous le clair de lune, pour les ablettes d’argent qui sautent près des bateaux-lavoirs. » Rémi des Rauches (1922).

The Maurice Genevoix Museum displays an impressive collection of rare books, drawings and songs written by Maurice Genevoix.

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The Castle of the Bignon was the house of the poet Patrice de La Tour du Pin whose birth’s centenary was celebrated in 2011. He spent the major part of his childhood there and, later, sought his inspiration in the solitude of this place and in the harmony with nature. When he was 22, he published his first collection of poems, La Quête de joie (1933). He

was wounded at the begining of World War II and spent three years in captivity during which he kept writing Une somme de poésie until he died in 1975.

In addition to the castle and the park, the visitor may see a unique collection of chromolithographs, a rare artistic expression of an ancient taste.

The Hôtel Euverte Hatte is a unique place when one can learn more about Charles Péguy, poet and writer born in 1873 in Orléans. A museographical area recounts the life of the École Normale supérieure student who was also an active dreyfusard, a socialist party member, an anti-marxist and catholic.

The Charles Péguy Centre displays an impressive collection of manuscripts, letters, studies, works and theses.

The Dreyfus Affair aroused Charles Péguy’s fascination with heroïsm and saintliness. He was also haunted by the story of Jeanne d’Arc. He developed two main themes in his whole work : the inner human struggle between the divine and the mortal, and the reinsertion of the spiritual into the temporal.

Patrice de La Tour du Pin / 1911-1975


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Charles Péguy Centre / Orléans

Château du Bignon - 45210 Le Bignon-Mirabeau

Owner and administrator : Jérôme et Marie-Liesse d’Aboville

Opening days and times : July, August and September : for further information, please call 02 38 90 97 41

Tours and events : Guided tours on the history of the place, including the tour of the castle and a literary thematic through the work of Patrice de La Tour du Pin

About Patrice de La Tour du Pin : www.latourdupin.org


Centre Charles Péguy 11 rue du Tabour – 45000 Orléans 02 38 53 20 23 – [email protected]

Owner and administrator : Ville d’Orléans

Opening days and times : Museum : from Monday to Saturday from 2 pm to 6 pm (except on public holidays) Library : from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6 pm (except on Fridays to 5 pm)

Tours and events : Literary cafés

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Honorat de BueilCastle of la Roche Racan

René DescartesHouse-Museum

René BoylesveRené Boylesve Museum

Pierre de RonsardSaint-Cosme Priory

Pierre HaletHouse of Pierre Halet

François RabelaisHouse of La Devinière

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In the middle of the Touraine region, the Castle of Saché was one of Honoré de Balzac’s favourite inspiring places. Born in Tours in 1799, the writer of the Comédie Humaine (1830-1856) remained faithful to his native region during his whole life. From 1825 to 1848, he paid regular visits to Jean Margonne, one of his parents’s friends, in his Castle of Saché. Balzac found there the silence and the austerity which allowed him to work from twelve to sixteen hours a day, far from the excitement of the parisian life. Le Père Goriot (1835), Louis Lambert (1832), César Birotteau (1839) or Illusions perdues (1836-1843) were partly written in his third-floor little bedroom. Saché inspired also Balzac who set the story of Le lys dans la vallée in the idyllic valley of the Indre : « Ne me demandez plus pourquoi j’aime la Touraine. Je ne l’aime ni comme on aime son berceau, ni comme on aime une oasis dans le désert ; je l’aime comme un artiste aime l’art. » Le lys dans la vallée (1836).

The museum displays an amazing literary collection about Balzac, with original editions of his works, manuscripts and hand-corrected book proofs.

Balzac Museum - Castle of Saché / Saché

Honoré de Balzac / 1799-1850

Musée Balzac - Château de Saché Rue du château - 37190 Saché 02 47 26 86 50 - [email protected] www.musee-balzac.fr

Owner and administrator : Conseil général d’Indre-et-Loire

Opening days and times : From 01/04 to 30/06 and from 01/09 to 30/09 : every day from 10 am to 6 pm From 01/07 to 31/08 : every day from 10 am to 7 pm From 01/10 to 31/03 : every day except on Tuesdays from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm Annual closing dates : 01/01 and 25/12


Tours and events : Free and guided thematic tours For families, tales on Balzac and his works, printing and writing workshops : « Printings of Saché », « The quill and the words » Throughout the year, temporary exhibitions, literary concerts, literary cafés, movie cafés, and readings

Literary escapade : Hiking circuits on Le lys dans la vallée theme (Azay-le-Rideau Tourist office : 02 47 45 44 40)

Literary collection at the Balzac Museum library in Saché and at the Tours Public Library


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Musée René Boylesve 19 rue Descartes - 37160 Descartes www.ville-descartes.fr

Owner : Commune de Descartes

Administrator : Association des amis de René Boylesve

Opening days and times : Opened on request and on Heritage days

Tours and events : Guided tours

Literary escapade : Literary collection at the Tours Public Library

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Born in La Haye-Descartes, René Boylesve - whose real name was René Tardiveau - was the painter of provincial bourgeoisie. Contemporary with Proust, René Boylesve’s work is embued with sensibility like in L’enfant à la balustrade (1903). His tales like La leçon d’amour dans un parc (1902) had a great success. His native Touraine inspired him throughout the major part of his work, and particularly in his book entitled La Touraine (1926).

The studyroom of the writer, who was a member of the French Academy, was recreated in a mansion built at the end of the 19th century, located between the house where he was born and René Descartes’s. The visitors will discover the reconstructions of some scenes of his novels in the rooms of the mansion.

René Boylesve Museum / Descartes

René Boylesve / 1867-1926


The building of the Castle of la Roche-Racan began in 1636 under the ownership of Honorat de Bueil, (known as Racan) who was a page at Henri IV’s court. Member of the famous family of Bueil, he was destined to a military career like his peers and became a brigadier.

His encounter with Malherbe, whose studient and friend he remained until the great master’s death, was decisive and he gave up his military career for writing. He was appointed by Richelieu himself in the French Academy the year of its creation.

He wrote most of his poems on nature in the secluded life in his castle. In Stances sur la retraite (1618), he spoke highly of a simple life in the countryside, far from the excitement, the intrigues and the splendour of the court he used to attend.

Castle of la Roche-Racan / Saint-Paterne-Racan

Château de la Roche-Racan 37370 Saint-Paterne-Racan - 02 47 29 20 02


Opening days and times : From 06/07 to 14/08 : from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm Visit for groups of more than 20 persons on request throughout the year


Tours and events : Guided tours on Racan’s life and work

Literary escapade : The poet’s ancestors were buried in the colle-giate church of the Bueil (for further information, please call Bueil en Touraine City hall)


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Born on March 31st, 1596, and baptized on April 3rd of the same year in the church of Saint-Georges de La Haye-en-Touraine (the village is now named Descartes), René Descartes came from a family of gentlemen of the Poitou region. He studied at La Flèche Jesuit College, then traveled during almost twelve years in various european countries to study armies and attend different classes.

He developed a new philosophy which would become the basis of modernity. In 1644, he published the Principes de la philosophie. The Cartesian doctrine introduced a real intellectual revolution in Europe. The method which Descartes applied was based on the notion of doubt that should enable to achieve truth : « Ne recevoir jamais aucune chose pour vraie, que je ne la connusse évidemment comme telle. » Le Discours de la méthode (1637).

The entirely renovated museum enables the visitors to discover the philosopher as well as his work and his time.

René Descartes House-Museum / DescartesMaison Musée René Descartes

29 rue Descartes - 37160 Descartes 02 47 59 79 19 - [email protected] www.ville-descartes.fr

Owner and administrator : Commune de Descartes

Opening days and times : From mid-March to mid-September : every day (except on Tuesdays) from 2 pm to 6 pm From mid-September to mid-November : every day (except on Tuesdays) from 2 pm to 5 pm In July and August, from 10 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and from 2 pm to 6 pm on Saturdays and Sundays Opened for groups and schools on request


Tours and events : Free or guided tours For children : philosophical goûters, games and workshops Throughout the year, philosophical cafés and workshops, recreational circuits

Literary escapade : Instructive tour of the town of Descartes : « The Cartesian »


Musée Rabelais - Maison de La Devinière 37500 Seuilly 02 47 95 91 18 - [email protected] www.musee-rabelais.fr


Opening days and times : From 01/07 to 31/08 : every day from 10 am to 7 pm From 01/04 to 30/06 and from 01/09 to 30/09 : everyday from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2pm to 6 pm From 01/10 to 30/03 : every day except on Tuesdays, from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm Annual closing dates : 01/01 and 25/12


Tours and events : Free, thematic or guided tours For children : writing workshops and educational tours of temporary exhibitions Temporary exhibitions and activities

Literary escapade : Picrocholines Wars footpath, 17 km circuit starting from La Devinière (Tourism office : 02 47 93 17 85)

François Rabelais was born end of the 15th century at La Devinière. He spent the first years of his life in this smallholding in Seuilly, in the heart of the Chinon area. This setting left its mark in the deep self of the writer who would use later this landscape as the stage for the military operations of the famous picrocholine war included in Gargantua.

He was a monk before becoming a doctor and he wrote his first two novels in Lyon. Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534) were censored and condemned by the Sorbonne theologians. Tiers Livre (1546), Quart Livre (1552) offered a sequel to his giants’s adventures ; the Cinquième Livre (1564) was published after Rabelais’s death in 1553 in Paris.

A Renaissance humanist philospher as well as a satirical writer, Rabelais was very attached to what was seen as the « garden of France », his native land, which inspired all his work.

Since 1951, the house of La Devinière is a literary museum dedicated to convey the spirit of the writer. In addition to the building of the 15th and 17th centuries, the viewing of the Troglodytic cellars, of the garden, of the vineyard and the landscape adds to the rural genuineness of the « giants’ castle ».

Rabelais Museum - House of La Devinière / Seuilly

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On the Loire bank, near Tours, Saint-Cosme Priory, which was founded end of 11th century, was Ronsard’s last home. Ronsard - who was seen as the « prince of the poets » - was its commisionning prior during twenty years before his death in 1585.

In this place deserted by the Saint-Martin monks in 1742, on can still see the remains of the romanesque-gothic church, the infirmary, the hostelry, the refectory and the prior’s lodgings. The visitor can also discover the grave of the poet who chose to die and be buried there.

The rose gardens that surround the mansion are an ultimate tribute to Ronsard and his message to « gather the fleet flower of youth ». As a Renaissance humanist, he developed universal themes in his work such as time, nature, love and death.

Since summer 2010, the visitors can also discover the spirit of another great artist, Zao Wou-Ki, a painter of Chinese origin, who designed, in a spiritual and poetic impulse, fourteen original stained-glasses for the canons refectory.

One can also admire a beautiful collection of « poor books » as well as a precious copy of the Odes by Ronsard (1555).

House of Ronsard – Saint-Cosme Priory / La Riche

Demeure de Ronsard - Prieuré Saint-Cosme Rue Ronsard - 37520 La Riche 02 47 37 32 70 - [email protected] www.prieure-ronsard.fr


Opening days and times : From 01/01 to 14/03 : every day except on Tues-days from 10 to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm From 15/03 to 30/04 and from 01/09 to 15/10 : every day from 10 am to 6 pm From 01/05 to 31/08 : every day from 10 am to 7 pm From 15/10 to 31/12 : every day except on Tues-days from 10 to 12.30 pm and from 2 to 5 pm


Tours and events : Free or guided tours For children : thematic guided tours and activities « Printemps des poètes » poetry festival, ancient music and chamber music festivals, the « Journées de la Rose »


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Pierre Halet was an all-round writer who developed his work around the various forms of writing : poetry, tales, short novels or dramas which perfectly suited his time. He favoured a dynamic and contrasted poetic writing and a personal and creative language that was embued of a great musicality.

Pierre Halet was also a writer of his region. He tended his vineyard of Vouvray wine throughout his life.

Gabriel Monnet wrote about this writer : « quelque part dans le jardin français, sur fond de collines et de ciel, il y a un arbre nommé Pierre Halet. » Comme un arbre (1966).

House of Pierre Halet / Chançay

Pierre Halet / 1924-1996

Writer internship programs

Maison de Pierre Halet 29 rue du Château de Vaux - 37210 Chançay


For further information about the house of Pierre Halet and events, please contact the Association of the friends of Pierre Halet : 02 47 42 22 24


The writers internship programs and facilities encourage creation in offering to authors or to illustrators a privileged period of time during which they can develop a literary project. These cultural reception facilities favour relationships between the various actors of the book sector and with other arts disciplines and promote local development.

These programs create genuine places of cultural exchanges and are the setting of encounters between the writers and the readership. They ensure the promotion of literary creation by enabling the publishing of the literary projects conducted inside the programs.

Lots of authors are thus hosted every year in the Centre region by associations, publishing houses and institutions.

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Maison des écritures2 rue Saint-André - 37370 Neuvy-le-Roi 02 47 24 89 82 - www.maisondesecritures.com

The aim of the Maison des écritures is to develop literary dynamics in a rural area. Authors are to apply directly to the Maison des écritures.

Résidence d’auteur littérature jeunesse CDDP - 3 place Raspail BP 2613 - 37026 Tours 02 47 60 17 00

For several years now, the 37 department educational documentation centre together with Livre Passerelle association and the Ressource Centre for Illiteracy and Literacy tution have hosted authors. This writer internship program, which is resolutely children’s literature oriented, receives poets as well as authors and illustrators.

Domaine national de Chambord Maison des Réfractaires - 41250 Chambord 02 54 50 40 00 www.chambord.org

From now on, the Domaine national de Chambord hosts an annual writer internship program.

Les mille univers La Friche l’Antre-Peaux 32 bis route de La Chapelle 18000 Bourges - 02 48 50 31 75 www.mille-univers.net

The Mille univers publishing house, that houses its own typographical workshop, receive authors in order to create, share techniques and offer various encounters with schools.

Triages Art et Littérature Rue du Fort - 36170 Saint-Benoît-du-Sault 02 54 47 66 60

In addition to their poetry publishing house, Tarabuste, Claudine Martin and Djamel Meskache run Triages Art et Littérature which, since 1989, enables writer internship programs from one to three months, as part of a rural area revitalisation mission.

Résidence d’auteur en Brenne 23 boulevard de la Valla - BP 77 - 36002 Châteauroux 02 54 61 34 67 - www.fol36.org

This internship program is part of a « nature, culture and heritage » dynamics taking place in spring. It offers a moment of encounter and exchange between a writer, a territory and readers through writing and reading

workshops. The Federation of public organizations of the Indre department is in charge of this program.

Abbaye de La Prée 36100 Ségry - 02 54 03 44 44 www.pqev.org

The writer internship program of La Prée is opened to creators from all arts disciplines, including literature. Since 2001, the Beaux-Arts Academy sponsors the Pour Que l’Esprit Vive association and seven members of the Academy take part in the selection of the candidates as well as in the follow-up and

support of the in-residence writers.

Domaine du Magny 36400 Le Magny – 06 72 70 29 25 www.caravanedespoetes.org

The Textes et Rêves association, in partnership with the association responsible for the project of the european house of poetry in the country of George Sand, hosts poets in its internship program.

Others places and programs hosted writers during the past years : the Domaine de Nohant or theater companies like the Compagnie du Hasard, the Fous de Bassan, the Théâtre de l’Imprévu…

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Bibliothèque municipale de Tours 2 bis avenue André Malraux - 37042 Tours cedex - 02 47 05 47 33 - www.bm-tours.fr

Collection : Balzac, Anatole France, René Boylesve, Courteline, yves Bonnefoy... Reopening on September 2013.

Bibliothèque universitaire de Tours 3 rue des tanneurs 37041 Tours cedex 1 02 47 36 64 86 www.scd.univ-tours.fr

Collection : Charles Ferdinand Ramuz Reference use on simple request to the library main desk.

Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance 59 rue Néricault-Destouches - BP 11328 37013 Tours cedex 1 - 02 47 36 77 60 http://cesr.univ-tours

Virtual humanist library : www.bvh.univ-tours.fr

Bibliothèque municipale de Bourges 1 place des Quatre piliers - BP 18 18001 Bourges cedex - 02 48 24 33 40 http://mediatheque.ville-bourges.fr

Collection : Alain-Fournier, Jacques Rivière, Jean-Louis Boncœur Reference use during the library opening times and by appointment.

Bibliothèque intercommunale de La Châtre Hôtel de Villaines - 36400 La Châtre 02 54 48 41 33 www.bib-cclachatrestesevere.net

Collection : George Sand, Charles Duvernet, Joseph Ageorges, Pierre de Boisdeffre… Reference use on Thursdays and Fridays from 2 pm to 6 pm.

Médiathèque de Châteauroux 41 avenue Charles de Gaulle 36000 Châteauroux - 02 54 08 35 35 http://mediatheque.ville-chateauroux.fr

Collection : Maurice Rollinat, George Sand Reference use on request and by appointment

during the library opening times.

Médiathèque d’Orléans 1, place Gambetta 45043 Orléans cedex 02 38 68 45 45 www.bm-orleans.fr

Collection : Max Jacob, Georges Bataille, Jean Louis Béchu, Michèle Desbordes Reference use during

the library opening times. Valuable documents are only available for consultation during the Régine-Pernoud room opening times. Specific consultation conditions for the Desbordes collection.

Bibliothèque du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans 1 rue Fernand Rabier - 45000 Orléans 02 38 79 21 66

Graphical collection : Max Jacob, Gaudier Brzeska, Malfrey, Roger Toulouse

Libraries and documentation centres

The libraries, like the writers’ houses, are important acquisition, deposit and bequest centres. Numerous documentation centres and libraries of the Centre region own literary archives and enhance on a regular basis their collections with writers’ handwritten pieces, letters, and personal documents. Among the most important collections, one can visit :

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Association des amis de Rabelais et de La Devinière 207 rue Auguste Chevallier - 37000 Tours 02 47 37 43 24 www.amisderabelais.org Publication of an annual bulletin.

Association des amis de Ronsard et du Prieuré Saint-Cosme Rue Ronsard - Prieuré Saint-Cosme 37520 La Riche - 02 47 37 32 70 www.lesamisderonsardetduprieuredesaintcosme.fr The association organizes an annual contest which grants the Sonnet Award.

Association des amis de René Boylesve « La Guennerie » - 37600 Mouzay

Association des amis de Pierre Halet 29 rue du Château de Vaux - 37210 Chançay 02 47 42 22 24 - www.litterature-lieux.com The association contributes to the protection and promotion of Pierre Halet’s work through the publication of his collected works in 2012.

Association de gestion des intérêts littéraires d’Épineuil Place de la mairie - 18360 Épineuil-le-Fleuriel 02 48 63 04 82

Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray 4 rue du Dr Proust - BP 20025 28120 Illiers-Combray - 02 37 24 30 97 http://marcelproust.pagesperso-orange.fr Publication of the Marcel Proust annual bulletin.

Association des amis du musée d’Henry de Monfreid Mairie - 36300 Ingrandes - 02 54 28 67 98 The association contributes to the preservation of the collections and to the promotion of the author’s literary work.

Association culture animation dionysienne Maurice Genevoix 16 route d’Orléans - 45150 Jargeau 02 38 59 82 39

Itinéraire Gaston Couté 4 rue des Bourrettes - 45130 Meung-sur-Loire www.itineraire-gaston-coute.fr

Association des amis de Max Jacob 450 rue des Clémenderies 45460 Bray-en-Val - 02 38 35 58 97 www.max-jacob.com www.cahiersmaxjacob.org The association publishes an annual review of research and creation, Les Cahiers Max Jacob, and regularly organizes scientific conferences about the author and his works.

Société des amis de Patrice de la Tour du Pin Château du Bignon 45210 Bignon-Mirabeau - 02 38 90 97 41 www.latourdupin.org The association publishes a journal dedicated to Patrice de la Tour du Pin’s work, every year or every two years.

Association des amis de la Ferté-Vidame BP 15 - 28340 La Ferté-Vidame - 02 37 37 64 09

Association des amis de Jacques Rivière et d’Alain-Fournier 81 rue François de Sourdis - 33000 Bordeaux 05 56 91 30 00 www.association-jacques-riviere-alain-fournier.com The association regularly publishes bulletins dedicated to the works of Alain-Fournier and Jacques Rivière.

Association des amis de Maurice Rollinat Mairie - 69, rue Auclerc Descottes 36200 Argenton-sur-Creuse - 02 47 61 43 08 The association publishes an annual bulletin about the author and his works and also organizes literary events.

Fédération nationale des maisons d’écrivain et des patrimoines littéraires Bibliothèque des Quatre-Piliers 18000 Bourges - 02 48 24 29 16www.litterature-lieux.comThe Federation’s objectives are to propose and to implement actions favouring the existence, the preservation and the cultural radiance of writers’houses, of public or private literary places or collections, linked to authors or to the written works of famous men from various cultures.

Libraries and documentation centres Community actors

The associations of writers’ friends are very active and suggest tours, debates, conferences and publications on a regular basis :

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Notes

Photographs copyrights :

Alain-Fournier : Maison-école du Grand Meaulnes ©M.T.Z. / Portrait©Collection particulière, droits réservés / Musée Historimage ©Fédération Nationale André Maginot

Théo Ananissoh : Portrait ©Livre au Centre

Agrippa d’Aubigné : Château de Talcy ©Centre des monuments nationaux

Marguerite Audoux : Chambre ©Mairie d’Aubigny-sur-Nère, service SETA

Honoré de Balzac : Musée Balzac ©CG37, J.-L Péchinot / Portrait ©CG37

Yves Bonnefoy : Portrait ©Livre au Centre

René Boylesve : Bureau de René Boylesve ©D. Ragot / Portrait ©Bibliothèque municipale de Tours-Fonds Boylesve

Honorat de Bueil : Château de la Roche-Racan ©Inventaire général, cliché R. Malnoury

Gaston Couté : Musée de Meung-sur-Loire ©Musée de Meung-sur-Loire

René Descartes : Musée René Descartes ©Mairie de Descartes / Portrait ©Mairie de Descartes

Frédéric Forte : Portrait ©Hermance Triay

Maurice Genevoix : Musée Maurice Genevoix ©Sylvie Genevoix / Portrait ©Sylvie Genevoix

Pierre Halet : Maison de Pierre Halet ©J. Guittier / Portrait ©Collection particulière

Max Jacob : Espace Max Jacob ©Office de tourisme Val d’Or et Forêt / « Portrait de Max Jacob, au monocle et à l’écharpe blanche » par Georges Allié ©Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, cliché F. Lauginie

Henry de Monfreid : Musée Henry de Monfreid ©JC. Lepère / Portrait « L’homme au turban » ©ADAGP

Alfred de Musset : Manoir de Bonaventure ©Livre au Centre

Charles Péguy : Centre Charles Péguy ©Collection Centre Péguy / Portrait par Léon Deshairs ©Collection Centre Péguy

Marcel Proust : Maison de Tante Léonie ©Musée Marcel Proust / Portrait par Jacques Emile Blanche ©Musée Marcel Proust

François Rabelais : Pigeonnier et logis de La Devinière ©C. Raimbault CG37 / Portrait ©C. Raimbault CG37

Pierre de Ronsard : Prieuré Saint-Cosme ©D. Bordes / Manoir de la Possonnière ©CCPR / Galerie Beauregard, Ronsard (©F. Lauginie 2007) / Buste ©D. Bordes

Saint-Simon : Espace Saint-Simon ©Les amis de la Ferté-Vidâme

George Sand : Domaine de Nohant ©M. Delaume / Signature de George Sand ©Collection particulière Musée de La Châtre / Portrait par F. Nadar ©Musée de La Châtre

Patrice de La Tour du Pin : Château ©J. d’Aboville / Portait ©P.A

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