Join Peter Fiennes in the company of some of France’s greatest writers as he celebrates French literature, art, landscape, food and wine, and explores the identity of this sublime, mysterious and sometimes fractious country. Drink with Sartre and de Beauvoir in the bars of Rouen; follow Edith Wharton’s ‘Motor-Flight’ along the Loire Valley to the home of George Sand; linger near Bordeaux with François Mauriac, join Colette in the trenches at Verdun... and head to Paris to consign Maupassant to an asylum and Sartre to his grave.
Illustrated talk, followed by conversation with Gladys Deleuze.
Peter is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece. He worked for Time Out as a writer, editor and publisher for 25 years.
’Witty and packed with gossip; [En Route] moves at the speed of a TGV, with the elegance of a Citroën DS.’ Sebastian Faulks
Sponsored by Alliance Francaise de Milton Keynes