En Route

Travel Guide

France

Just a selection on the map above but there are SO many more in the book!

Travelling in a loop around France, Peter Fiennes explores France’s sense of its own people, place and identity through some of its greatest writers and artists.

Fiennes drinks with Sartre and de Beauvoir in the bars of Rouen and Le Havre; follows Edith Wharton’s ‘Motor-Flight’ along the Loire Valley to the home of George Sand; and explores the beaches of the south with Colette and Katherine Mansfield. He lingers in Bordeaux with François Mauriac, canvasses the foothills of the Alps with John Berger and follows Colette to the trenches at Verdun, before finally heading to Paris, where he consigns Maupassant to an asylum and Sartre to his grave.

Happy literary travels!