The French commune of Illiers adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage to which author whose vivid recreation of the town (through recollection) opens his vast magnum opus?
"and light green at Brossen Stone (bursting stone). The scenery around Coniston derives from Coniston Limestone and rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group. Coniston is also an important local centre, with a secondary school (John Ruskin School), primary school (Coniston Church of England Primary School), bank, petrol station and other such services. It has also repeatedly been highly placed in the Village of the Year award, winning it in 1997. The village is twinned with Illiers-Combray. The French village is associated with Marcel Proust for whom Ruskin's work was a source of inspiration. Coniston, Cumbria Coniston is a village and"
"Combourg Combourg (, Gallo: ""Conbórn"") is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Inhabitants of Combourg are called ""Combourgeois"" and, more rarely ""Combournais"", in French. The town is part of the Patrimoine Urbain de Bretagne and labelled as one of Les Petites Cités de Caractère. Combourg is considered the ""cradle of Romanticism"" in French literature due to the renowned French writer François-René de Chateaubriand who spent part of his youth in his family's castle, the Château de Combourg. He describes the village and medieval castle in his ""Mémoirs from Beyond the Grave"". Combourg is located between"
"posthumously. ""Le Littré de la Grand'Côte"", his popular dictionary in Lyonnaise dialect first published in 1894 has been continuously in print for more than 100 years. He also wrote the novel ""Histoire d'André"" in 1867, a large volume of poetry titled ""Pauca Paucis"" in 1889, and a collection of memoires he called ""Au hasard de la pensée"" in 1895. Clair Tisseur Clair Tisseur (27 January 1827, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône – 30 September 1896, Nyons, Drôme), was a French architect whose best known work is Église du Bon-Pasteur, a prominent Romanesque Revival church in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon. He is also"
"book, the previously little-known village of Montaillou become a popular tourist destination. In ""Montaillou"", Le Roy Ladurie used the records of the Inquisition of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, to develop a multi-layered study of life in a small French village over the course of several years. Le Roy Ladurie used the records of interrogations conducted by Fournier to offer a picture of both the material and mental worlds of the inhabitants of Montaillou. ""Montaillou"" was much praised by reviewers in both France and the English-speaking world for its vivid, atmospheric recreation of the everyday life of the people of"
"the 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award for ""Translation (French to English)"", and his translation of Pierre Tourangeau's ""Larry Volt"" was one of the finalists for the same award in 2002. He teaches English in Montreal. ""The Immaculate Conception"" has been described as echoing ""the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky"" and illuminating the ""sublime, the uncanny, and the horrific that burns at the core of ordinary lives"". Set in the mid-1920s in the isolated, working-class parish of ""Nativité"" in East-end Montreal, the novel chronicles the aftermath of a deadly fire—75 people die when a neighborhood restaurant is burned"
"churchman and preacher as well as Marius Gueit (1808– 1865), blind composer, organist and cellist. The author Jean-Marie-Edmond Sabran (1908–1994), who wrote under the pseudonyms Paul Berna (children's fiction), Bernard Deleuse and Paul Gerradwas (adult fiction), and Joel Audrenn (crime novels), was born in Hyères as well as François Coupry (born 1947), winner of the 1970 edition of the Prix des Deux Magots. The French historian Jules Michelet frequently spent the winter at Hyères. He died from a heart attack at Hyères on 9 February 1874. He was interred at Hyères. Following his widow's request, a Paris court granted permission"
"as Lille, Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille. Through Claude Paillat's work many key figures have been able to relate their stories, events that may have otherwise never been committed to paper. Paillat was a journalist who became a best-selling historian. His most significant work is his eight-volume Dossiers secrets de la France contemporaine, a series that covers the span of French history from the conclusion of the First World War to the end of the Second. He also published a two-volume study of the Algerian War; a monograph on the French defeat in Indochina, as well as one on the"
"life he knew so well. Two genuine poets are the brothers Rigaud of Montpellier: Augustes (1760–1835) description of a vintage is deservedly famous; and Cyrille (1750-1820s) produced an equally delightful poem in the ""Amours de Mounpeïé"". Pierre Hellies of Toulouse (d. 1724) a poet of the people, whose vicious life finds an echo in his works, has a certain rude charm, at times distantly recalling Villon. In the Province Toussaint Gros (1698–1748), of Lyon, holds undisputed sway. His style and language are admirable, but unfortunately he wasted his gifts largely on trivial pieces d'occasion. Coyes (1711-17~7) comedy, the ""Franc pare"","
"Clarens, Switzerland Clarens is a small village in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. Clarens was made famous throughout Europe by the immense success of the book ""La Nouvelle Héloïse"" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Whilst in Clarens, the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballets ""The Rite of Spring"" and ""Pulcinella"" and in March 1878, Tchaikovsky wrote his Violin Concerto. Paul Kruger, hero of South African independence from Britain, died here. For this reason, a village in South Africa was given the same name. The anarchist and geographer Élisée Reclus resided in Clarens. Writer Vladimir Nabokov"
"its invention, braille remains a system of powerful and enduring utility. The immense personal legacy of Louis Braille was described in a 1952 essay by T.S. Eliot: Braille's childhood home in Coupvray is a listed historic building and houses the Louis Braille Museum. A large monument to him was erected in the town square which was itself renamed Braille Square. On the centenary of his death, his remains were moved to the Panthéon in Paris. In a symbolic gesture, Braille's hands were left in Coupvray, reverently buried near his home. Statues and other memorials to Louis Braille can be found"
"2,000 in the early 19th century The novelist and critic (1889-1949) was born in Ize on the 7 May 1889. A plaque marks his house today. Izé Izé is a commune in the township of Bais, part of the Mayenne department in the region of Pays de la Loire, in north-western France. The Izé hall and mairie border a large fishing pond stocked with salmon and trout. The village has its own bakery and bar-cafe, which also sells basic food supplies. The was heavily rebuilt following the tornado of 1978. Renovation works include new stained glass windows incorporating the faces"
"Community called ‘Kit Lok’, to provide vigil facilities for bereaved families. Port Louis has been an active cultural city attracting painters, poets, sculptors and writers for centuries. Marie-Thérèse Humbert wrote her famous novel, La Montagne des Signaux, with Port-Louis in mind. Malcolm de Chazal was a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter who was often seen in the capital, mostly at the central market, Champ de Mars and l'hôtel National. Robert Edouard-Hart, a great poet found in this very active city a source of inspiration. Port-Louis born poet and semiologist Khal Torabully, the foremost poet of indenture and coolitude, recently"
"flour. Some have even been found in England. Among notable residents, the artist Émile Bayard was born in this town (1837). The Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist, poet and nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett lived in the neighboring hamlet of Mollien for 36 years. The town's library and secondary school are named after him. André the Giant, three times Worldwide Wrestling champion, icon of the André the Giant Has a Posse (aka Obey) street art project grew up in the local canton. As a child, the American writer and filmmaker Oliver Stone used to spend all his summer holliday at his"
"Catalonia, Italy, Romania, Germany and other countries. In common with so many other productions of the Felibrige, this ""Almanac"" is published by the firm J. Roumanille, Libraire-Editeur, Avignon. Felix Gras settled at Avignon in his youth. His rustic epic, ""Li Carbounié"" (1876) is full of elemental passion and abounds in fine descriptions of scenery, but it lacks proportion. The heroic geste of ""Toloza"" (1882), in which Simon de Montfort's invasion of the south is depicted with unbounded vigour and intensity, shows a great advance in art. ""Lou Roumancero prouvençau"" (1887) is a collection of poems instinct with Provençal lore, and"
"Charles Exbrayat Charles Exbrayat (5 May 1906 – 8 March 1989) was a French fiction writer. He published over 100 novels and short stories, most of them humorous thrillers. They were very popular and a considerable number were turned into films. While living in Nice with his parents, he was studying to becoming a medical doctor, but then found his true calling as a writer. His debut novel was ""Aller sans Retour"" (single fare, no return), written while in Geneva, before going to Paris. He was one of the most famous French authors of the illustrious ""le Masque"" collection. He"
"et l'enfant"" (1828); Victor Gelu (1806-1885), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind (""Fenian é Grouman; dix chansons provençales"", 1840); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended. While much of this literature was still in the making, an event took place which was destined to eclipse in importance any that had gone before. In 1845 Joseph Roumanille of Saint-Rémy (Bouches-du-Rhône), became"
"Guillaume Apollinaire. In 2003 he received the Grand Award of the Society, for all his work, and the Prix Mallarmé. Previously, his novel ""Mrs. Haroy or the memory of the whale"" to be filmed in 2010 earned him Luxembourg's Servais Prize (best book of the year in any genre). In Luxembourg, he founded in 2009 the literary magazine ""Transkrit"", dedicated to translating contemporary literature, and ""Phi"". In France, he co-founded, with Jacques Darras and Jean-Yves Reuzeau, the journal ""Inuits dans la jungle"", the first issue being published in June 2008. In March 2011, he was awarded the Batty Weber Prize"
"December 1, 1902, claiming that Voulet and Chanoine had been driven mad by the dreadful heat, the """"soudanite aiguë"""". After a long period of oblivion, the memory of the expedition was revived in 1976 by the writer Jacques-Francis Rolland in his ""Le Grand Captaine"", honoured with the Prix des Maisons de la Presse. The book is centered on the figure of Voulet, seen as a titanic individual, reckless and unsubmissive, bloody for reasons of strategy. A very different perspective was taken in 1980 by Abdoulaye Mamani in ""Sarraounia"", the masterpiece of Nigerien fiction. Here the protagonist is not the conqueror,"
"and whose services to the history of the Valais were very great, and abbé Jean Gremaud (1823–1897) of Fribourg. The principal contemporary historians are Victor van Berchem, Francis de Crue, Camille Favre, Henri Fazy, B. de Mandrot, Berthold van Muyden and Edouard Rott. More recent authors include Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947), whose novels describe the lives of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment, the poets Blaise Cendrars (born Frédéric Sauser, 1887–1961), Léon Savary (1895–1968), Gustave Roud (1897–1976), Jean-Georges Lossier (1911–2004), Pericle Patocchi (1911–1968), Maurice Chappaz (1916–2009) and Philippe Jaccottet (born 1925), Armel Guerne (1911–1980) and the novelists"
"the cities of Rennes and Saint-Malo in Brittany. It is approximately 386 km from Paris, 39 km from Rennes and 36 km from Saint-Malo . François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), known as the father of Romanticism in French literature, spent his childhood in his family's castle, the Château de Combourg. Combourg is twinned with Waldmünchen, in Bavaria, Germany. Combourg Combourg (, Gallo: ""Conbórn"") is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Inhabitants of Combourg are called ""Combourgeois"" and, more rarely ""Combournais"", in French. The town is part of the Patrimoine Urbain de Bretagne and labelled as one"
"wrote a number of novels set in Scotland (Imogene series) and in Italy. His other interests included gourmet food and fine wines. To honor writers who specialized in detective stories, the city of Saint-Étienne created a special prize to be attributed during their book festival and called it the Charles Exbrayat Prize. Charles Exbrayat Charles Exbrayat (5 May 1906 – 8 March 1989) was a French fiction writer. He published over 100 novels and short stories, most of them humorous thrillers. They were very popular and a considerable number were turned into films. While living in Nice with his parents,"
"Spanish poet Antonio Machado, who fled here to escape advancing Francoist troops at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The British novelist Patrick O'Brian, lived in the town from 1949 until his death in 2000, and his novel ""The Catalans"" graphically describes Collioure life before major changes took place. He also wrote a biography of Picasso, who was an acquaintance. O'Brian and his wife Mary are also buried in the town cemetery. Part of the action in Stephen Clarke's fourth comic novel featuring Paul West, ""Dial M for Merde"", takes place in Collioure. Ninety-eight reproductions of Matisse’s"
"to publish numerous collections. Lemerre's publications include many of the ""chefs-d'œuvre"" of 19th century French literature and history: Anatole France, Auguste Molinier, Louis Petit de Julleville; la Petite Bibliothèque littéraire, la Bibliothèque des curieux, la Bibliothèque illustrée, la Bibliothèque dramatique, la Petite collection pour la jeunesse, les poèmes nationaux, des livres d'enseignement and other collections. He was a mayor of Ville d'Avray, a Republicain in politics, anticlerical. He was very attached to his native Normandy. He went there often (to Canisy, to the Château de Montmirel and to Coutainville) and had several properties there (Dangy, Dais, Méterville). In 1965, the"
"some of his manuscripts, remain as of 2006 in the municipal library of Le Havre, and a street ""Rue Jean Baptiste Eyries"" was named after him in the city. Eyriès was remembered by his contemporaries for his erudition, selfless dedication, prodigious memory, critical thinking and modesty, and Pierre Larousse wrote of him: ""Many people still remember seeing a little old man in antiquated clothes, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and reading along the waterfront: that was Eyriès, who worked to fill his vast memory and his rich library at the same time."" Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (; 24 June"
"man who saw more clearly into my mind than I did myself."" Starkie quotes Maxime Du Camp who knew them both well as saying that ""it was Bouilhet who was the master, in the matter of literature at least, and that it was Flaubert who obeyed."" Throughout their lives, Flaubert referred to Bouilhet as ""Monseigneur."" Louis Bouilhet Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1822 – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. Bouilhet was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, ""Miloenis"" (1851), a narrative poem in"
"Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jean-François Millet in their choice of humble everyday subjects – in the case of Étaples, the life of the fisherfolk. There are good examples in the work of the American Louis Paul Dessar, who was in the town between 1886-1901, and the Anglo-Australian Tudor St George Tucker, whose first major painting, ""A Picardy Shrimp Fisher"", was executed in Étaples. William Gerard Barry's ""Time Flies"" and Birge Harrison's ""The Return of the Mayflower"", mentioned above, are works of the same tendency. One particular focus of attention as a subject was the town's fish market, built in 1872 and"
"in curved serpentine compositions; through the integration of works of art; and finally through the careful handling of public spaces, at times eccentrically shaped and colourfully treated. The residents are thereby given an impetus to identify with their environment. Émile Aillaud Émile Aillaud (18 January 1902 in Mexico City – 29 December 1988 in Paris) was a French architect. His design can be found after World War II in France, such as Les Courtilières in Pantin (1955–56, 1957–60), Wiesberg at Forbach (1959, 1961 ff.) and La Grande Borne at Grigny (1964–71), are representative of the attempts to compensate for the"
"their morality very far from severe. As almost the father of a kind of literature which later developed enormously, Pigault-Lebrun deserves a certain place in literary history. Among the most celebrated of his novels may be mentioned ""L'Enfant du Carnaval"" (1792) and ""Angelique et Jeanneton de la place Maubert"" (1799). His ""Citateur"" (2 vols., 1803), a collection of quotations against Christianity, was forbidden and yet several times reprinted. Pigault-Lebrun Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Espinoy, better known as Pigault-Lebrun, (8 April 1753 - 24 July 1835) was a French novelist and playwright. He was born at Calais; he is said to have"
"15th century. Gnomic literature, including ""Maxims I"" and ""Maxims II"", is a genre of Medieval Literature in England. The gnomic spirit has occasionally been displayed by poets of a homely philosophy, such as Francis Quarles (1592–1644) in England and Gui de Pibrac (1529–1584) in France. The once-celebrated ""Quatrains"" of the latter, published in 1574, enjoyed an immense success throughout Europe; they were composed in deliberate imitation of the Greek gnomic writers of the 6th century BCE. With the gnomic writings of Pibrac it was long customary to bind up those of Antoine Faber (or Favre) (1557–1624) and of Pierre Mathieu"
"(1844–1924); Paul Claudel (1868–1955); Alphonse Allais (1854–1905); the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918); Maurice Barrès (1862–1923); René Bazin (1853–1932); Colette (1873–1954); the poet and novelist François Coppée (1842–1908); Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897); Alain Fournier (1886–1914), author of ""Le Grand Meaulnes"" (1913)- his only published novel-, who died on the battlefield in September 1914; André Gide (1869–1951); Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925); Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), a Belgian poet and essayist; the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1840–1898), who had a literary salon every Tuesday including the leading artists and writers of Paris; Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917); Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), poet and novelist; Charles Péguy (1873–1914), killed"
"lying-low at his father's house he began writing his novel ""L'influence d'un livre"". The story is made up of various fictionalised historical events, legends and folksongs which show the influence of father's recollections. Despite now being recognised as a major landmark in Canadian literature the book was not well received and Philippe died shortly afterwards in Halifax where he was buried in front of the present-day Spring Garden Road Public Library. Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first"
"(1848), with an admirable biography by Armand Carrel, which is reproduced in a later edition, with a supplementary criticism by Francisque Sarcey (1876–1877); also three notices by Sainte-Beuve in the ""Causeries du lundi"" and the ""Nouveaux Lundis"". In the centre of Veretz there is a stele, raised in honour of Courier 50 years after his murder, and the opening was observed by many eminent writers of the time. Paul Louis Courier Paul Louis Courier (; 4 January 177210 April 1825), French Hellenist and political writer, was born in Paris. Brought up on his father's estate of Méré in Touraine, he"
"""La Mairie"" - (popularized by Jules Romain in his novel ""Les copains""). The Agrivap Chemin de Fer Touristique operates out of Ambert. There is a steam engine that makes a local run, but to see the line in full a ride on the Panoramique Autorail is not to be missed. There is an industrial museum with an interesting collection of tractors and small steam engines. In the town the Museum of Cheese is worth a visit, as is the old paper mill a few kilometres outside the main town. Ambert was the birthplace of the mathematician Michel Rolle (1652–1719), composer"