One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.
A hamlet in the Rhône, a surgeon's memoir, and one night in April 1944.
Eighty-two years ago today, on the evening of 22 April 1944, a man was[...]
One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.
INTRODUCTION — A field near Mâcon
There is a field, roughly 9 kilometres north-north-east of Mâcon, that looks like any other in the Ain. Flat, wide, unremarkable. A[...]
One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.
INTRODUCTION – Lyon under the bombs
In the spring of 1944, Allied bombing over Lyon was aimed mainly at railways and industrial targets. In practice, it did not[...]