The author André Dhôtel (1900-91), born in Attigny (Ardennes), most famed for his novel Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais (1955), which was awarded the Prix Femina, is buried with his wife Suzanne (née Laurent), whom he married in 1932, in Le Cimetière Ville Basse in Provins.
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.
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