Pierre Benoit, 6e arrondissement, Paris

'PIERRE BENOIT

DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE

A VÉCU DANS CET IMMEUBLE

DE 1924 À 1947'

120 Rue d'Assass. The right-wing Pierre Benoit (1886–1962) was born in Albi and was much travelled. His many novels, of which L'Atlantide (1919) is perhaps the most well known, frequently concern exotic countries. He died in Ciboure in Pyrénées-Atlantiques – where a bust on a tall pedestal has been erected to him – in his villa named Allegria, named after one of a number of female heroes bearing the first letter of the alphabet: she is from the novel Pour don Carlos (1920).