Promenade Littéraire #1: Armand Salacrou, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

Throughout Le Havre there are twenty benches, part of the Promenade Littéraire (an expression displayed on the top left of each bench). Each bench has its number, and in the central area between the two seats are the details of a writer (occasionally number of writers) associated with the area, including a quotation. We found nineteen of these benches: on two occasions we tried to find the bench of Guy de Maupassant (#5) on the Boulevard Clemenceau, but with no success. We begin the literary walk with #1, on Boulevard Albert 1^er.

I took this rather eccentric shot of #1, the dramatist Armand Salacrou (1899-1989), to avoid the ugliness of the car behind the bench. This is opposite Salacrou's Villa Maritime, built by George Dufayel. The quotation given is from Salacrou's Dans la salle des pas perdus (1974). Many writers have mentioned the villa.