On the ground floor of the house, on the courtyard side, away from the street and with a terrace, Alain Fournier's room (30 m²) offers tiled floors and antique furniture, a neat and relaxing decoration, it is lit by 2 large windows, facing south. Below, a terrace will allow you to have a drink or a meal. Very pleasant, for a short or long stay. Bed 180cm.
Alain-Fournier was born in 1886 in La Chapelle-d’Angillon, about 30 km from Bourges. The French writer is best known as the author of Le Grand Meaulnes.
In 1905, at the age of eighteen, he met a beautiful young woman, Yvonne de Quiévrecourt, at an exhibition at the Grand Palais. Their love was impossible: she was already engaged and would later marry a naval doctor.
For the next eight years, Fournier could not forget her. She would inspire the character of Yvonne de Galais in his novel.
He performed his military service as a reserve second lieutenant in 1907. After his discharge in 1909, he gradually developed what would become his most celebrated work, published in 1913.
As a reserve lieutenant, he was mobilized on 2 August 1914 at Mirande, in the 288th Infantry Regiment.
He was killed on 22 September 1914, at the age of twenty-seven, near Vaux-lès-Palameix, where a monument now stands in his memory. He died without leaving descendants.
Declared “died for France” in 1920, he was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.
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