André Dhôtel in Attigny, Ardennes (08)

Novelist and poet André Dhôtel (1900-1991), most famous for the his novel Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais (1955), which won the Prix Femina mentioned on the plaque, and which is partly set in the Ardennes, was born in Attigny. In his early years he lived in a house on the site of the plaque, although not the existing house because the earlier house was destroyed during World War I. He had a holiday home in Mont-de-Jeux a few kilometres away from Attigny.