Mural of Writers, Saint-Amour (39), Jura (39)

This fresco in the centre of Saint-Amour celebrates notable writers associated with the town. At the top is Guillaume de Saint-Amour (1202-72), who was a theologian who was born and who died in the town. More prominently placed on the bottom left is Lucien Febvre (1878-19), a historian and literary critic who founded L'École des Annales with Marc Bloch: he is buried in the local cemetery. Léon Werth is well-known for fleeing Paris in the June 1940 exodus, which he wrote about in 33 Jours (1992), although he's more famous for the staunchly anti-military novel Clavel Soldat (1919), which is represented in the mural. The significance of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince is that Saint-Exup was Werth's friend, and he dedicated the book to him.