En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers by Fiennes, Peter
En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers by Fiennes, Peter

En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers

From the Côte d'Azur to the cliffs of Normandy, along the banks of the Seine to the...
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Author: Peter Fiennes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers by Fiennes, Peter

En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers

$35.94
En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers by Fiennes, Peter

En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers

$35.94
Author: Peter Fiennes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From the Côte d'Azur to the cliffs of Normandy, along the banks of the Seine to the Alps, this is the ultimate literary tour of France.

In this sparkling new narrative--traveling in a loop around France, from Le Havre to Paris--Peter Fiennes explores France's sense of its own people, place, and identity through some of its greatest writers and artists. Moving between the centuries, from the Arthurian forests and Neolithic fields of Brittany to the banlieues of Paris, Fiennes follows the threads of history across France. And wonders what is next for this sublime, mysterious, and sometimes fractious country.

Fiennes drinks with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone 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 Guy de Maupassant to an asylum and Sartre to his grave.

A paean to the glories of French literature, art, landscape, food, and wine, En Route is a heartfelt exploration of where the country finds itself after so many centuries at the center of European life.

Author: Peter Fiennes
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9798897101016


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2026 pg. 70
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2026

About the Author
Peter Fiennes is the author of the critically acclaimed Footnotes; Oak and Ash and Thorn; and To War with God. As the publisher for Time Out, he nurtured a lifelong obsession with old guidebooks, creating award-winning city guides, walking books, and titles about Britain's countryside and seaside. He lives in London.
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