Writers’ houses IIIIIIIIIIIIIII and authors’ places IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII in the Centre region 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 Editorial 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 associated. Olivier Meneux Director of Ciclic p 3 The Centre region : Dreux 5 49 Chartres 28 3 48 Nogent-le-Rotrou Pithiviers 14 47 Châteaudun 45 Montargis Orléans 37 36 12 2 Vendôme 13 44 11 45 4 La Loire 1 10 46 Blois 17 22 26 Tours 41 21 7 39 23 Romorantin-Lanthenay 38 30 20 31 32 6b 50 41 Chinon 37 15 Vierzon Loches 18 19 Bourges 33 51 24 40 18 16 Issoudun Châteauroux 28 35 27 Saint-Amand-Montrond Le Blanc 36 9 29 8 9b La Châtre 6 34 43 42 25 p 4 a unique literary potential An active and lively network which encourages the junction between literary heritage and contemporary writings via a great diversity of cultural actors and authors. Beauce - Vendômois area Writer internship programs p 26/27 22 1 Agrippa d’Aubigné .................p 9 Maison des écritures 23 Résidence d’auteur littérature jeunesse 2 Alfred de Musset ...................p 9 24 Les mille univers 25 3 Marcel Proust ........................p 10 Triages Art et littérature 26 Domaine national de Chambord 4 Pierre de Ronsard ..................p 11 27 Résidence Chapitre nature 28 5 Saint-Simon ..........................p 11 Abbaye de La Prée 29 Domaine du Magny Berry area Libraries and documentation centres p 28 6 6b Alain-Fournier ......................p 13 30 Bibliothèque municipale de Tours 7 Marguerite Audoux ................p 14 31 Bibliothèque universitaire de Tours 32 Centre d’études supérieures 8 Henry de Monfreid ................p 14 de la Renaissance 9 9b George Sand ........................................... p 15 33 Bibliothèque municipale de Bourges 34 Bibliothèque intercommunale de La Châtre 35 Médiathèque de Châteauroux Orléanais area 36 Médiathèque d’Orléans 10 Gaston Couté .......................p 17 37 Bibliothèque du Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans 11 Max Jacob ............................p 17 Community actors p 29 12 Maurice Genevoix..................p 18 38 Amis de Ronsard et du Prieuré Saint-Cosme 39 13 Charles Péguy .......................p 19 Amis de Rabelais et de la Devinière 40 Amis de René Boylesve 14 Patrice de La Tour du Pin ........p 19 41 Amis de Pierre Halet 42 Association de gestion des intérêts Touraine area littéraires d’Épineuil 43 Amis du musée Henry de Monfreid 15 Honoré de Balzac ..................p 21 44 Association culture et animation dionysienne Maurice Genevoix 16 René Boylesve ......................p 22 45 Amis de Max Jacob 17 Honorat de Bueil ...................p 22 46 Itinéraire Gaston Couté 47 Amis de Patrice de la Tour du Pin 18 René Descartes .....................p 23 48 Amis de Marcel Proust et Amis de Combray 19 François Rabelais ...................p 24 49 Amis de la Ferté-Vidame 50 Amis de Maurice Rollinat 20 Pierre de Ronsard ..................p 25 51 Fédération des maisons d’écrivain 21 Pierre Halet ..........................p 26 et des patrimoines littéraires p 5 Writers over the years and centuries… 1500 1550 1600 16 50 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 François Rabelais 1494-1553 ........ François Rabelais Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585 Agrippa d’Aubigné 1552-1630 ........ Pierre de Ronsard Honorat de Bueil, dit Racan 1589-1670 René Descartes 1596-1650 Saint-Simon 1675-1755 ........ Agrippa d’Aubigné Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850 ........ George Sand 1804-1876 Honorat de Bueil, dit Racan Alfred de Musset 1810-1857 Marguerite Audoux 1863-1937 René Boylesve 1867-1926 ........ René Descartes Marcel Proust 1871-1922 ........ Charles Péguy 1873-1914 Saint-Simon Max Jacob 1876-1944 Henry de Monfreid 1879-1974 ........ Gaston Couté Honoré de Balzac Alain Fournier ........ George Sand Maurice Genevoix 1890-1980 Patrice de La Tour du Pin 1911-1975 Pierre Halet 1924-1996 ........ Alfred de Musset ........ Marguerite p 6 Audoux Writers over the years and centuries… 1500 1550 1600 16 50 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 François Rabelais 1494-1553 ........ Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585 Marcel Proust Agrippa d’Aubigné 1552-1630 ........ René Boylesve Honorat de Bueil, dit Racan 1589-1670 René Descartes 1596-1650 Saint-Simon 1675-1755 ........ Max Jacob Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850 George Sand 1804-1876 ........ Charles Péguy Alfred de Musset 1810-1857 Marguerite Audoux 1863-1937 René Boylesve 1867-1926 ........ Gaston Couté Marcel Proust 1871-1922 Charles Péguy 1873-1914 ........ Henry de Monfreid Max Jacob 1876-1944 Henry de Monfreid 1879-1974 1880 Gaston Couté 1911 ........ Maurice 1886 Genevoix Alain Fournier 1914 ........ Maurice Genevoix 1890-1980 Alain Fournier Patrice de La Tour du Pin 1911-1975 Pierre Halet 1924-1996 ........ Pierre Halet ........ Patrice de la Tour du Pin p 7 BEAUCE - VENDÔMOIS AREA Dreux Saint-Simon Espace Saint-Simon Chartres Marcel Proust House of Aunt Léonie Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir Châteaudun Alfred de Musset Bonaventure Manor-house Vendôme Pierre de Ronsard Agrippa d’Aubigné La Possonnière Manor-house Castle of Talcy Blois La Loire Loir-et-Cher Romorantin-Lanthenay p 8 BEAUCE - VENDÔMOIS AREA Agrippa d’Aubigné / 1552-1630 1 Castle of Talcy / Talcy AREA This 16th century seigniorial mansion is famous in the history of literature and invites its visitors to a MOIS journey back in time. During Renaissance, the Castle Ô Practical information of Talcy was owned by Bernard Salviati, father of Château de Talcy - 41370 Talcy - 02 54 81 03 01 Cassandre, muse of Ronsard, and grand-father of END http://talcy.monuments-nationaux.fr Diane who inspired the young Agrippa d’Aubigné. The Talcy estate remains the evidence of a centre V - Owner and administrator : of intellectual sociability in the 15th century, and CE Centre des monuments nationaux U even more in the 19th, when Philippe-Albert Stapfer’s Opening days and times : EA family (he was the first french translator of Goethe’s B From 2/05 to 4/09 : every day from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm writings) moved in the castle. « Dans le parc de Talcy, From 5/09 to 30/04 : every day from 10 am j’ai dressé deux plançons – Sur qui le temps faucheur to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 5pm ni l’ennuyeuse estorse – Des filles de la nuit jamais Closed on January 1st, May 1st and December 25th n’aura de force – Et non plus que mes vers n’éteindra Closed on Tuesdays from 01/10 to 31/03 leur renoms…» L’hécatombe à Diane. Free admission for visitors under 18 The estate has become productive again and Tours and events : its garden and orchard have been completely Free or guided tours rearranged according to lists of ancient varieties that had been found in the castle’s archives. Alfred de Musset / 1810-1857 2 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 Practical information and lieutenant of the bailiff of Blois. The Musset family owned the manor-house for more than Maison de Bonaventure Le Gué du Loir - 41100 Mazangé three centuries. Alfred de Musset stayed there with 02 54 72 07 43 his father and his brother in 1822. Owner and administrator : In 2010, to celebrate the writer’s birth bicentenary, Private ownership many conferences, meetings and tours took place Opening days and times : in the Vendômois area, as well as great exhibition July, August and September : please call for in Blois. further information on opening days and times p 9 3 Marcel Proust / 1871-1922 House of Aunt Léonie - Marcel AREA Proust Museum / Illiers-Combray MOIS « Et comme dans ce jeu où les Japonais Ô s’amusent à tremper dans un bol de porcelaine rempli d’eau, de petits morceaux de papier […] END tout Combray et ses environs, tout cela qui prend - V - forme et solidité, est sorti, ville et jardins, de ma tasse CE de thé », Du côté de chez Swann (1913). U The house of Aunt Léonie was actually Jules and EA B 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).