Literary trail, in the footsteps of Irène Némirovsky - "The countryside" route

The novelist Irène Némirovsky, a best-selling author in 1930s France but forgotten after the Second World War, is the only writer to be awarded the Prix Renaudot posthumously in 2004 for her unfinished novel Suite Française. She spent two years in Issy-l'Évêque between 1940 and 1942, before being deported to Auschwitz, and left her mark on the village with two manuscripts written there, Suite Française and Chaleur du sang. There is a path dedicated to her memory, one in the village, signposted in red (580m), and the other in blue through the countryside (8km) where the author liked to go to write. There are information panels with extracts from her works and historical notes.