Guided tour of the Elsa Triolet-Aragon House

Moulin de Villeneuve - Rue de la Villeneuve 78730 Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
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21 - 22 September 2024
Overview

Located in the south of the Yvelines, the Moulin de Villeneuve takes you into the privacy of Elsa Triolet and Aragon. He was sometimes the setting and source of inspiration for their writings. A walk, through the meadows, woods and “tears” that follow each other, allows the visitor to discover or rediscover two great figures of our intellectual life. It was in 1951 that Aragon decided to offer Elsa the Russian, the uprooted, the foreigner, “this little piece of land of France”. It is a mill established there at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Vestiges of the milling activity remain: the cage of the wheel is at the heart of the large salon, itself backed by the reach. In the park of nearly six hectares, which dominates the white stone of their tomb, winds the Rémarde. It is a place of writing. It was here that some of the most beautiful pages of French literature were written. For your pleasure, current painters, sculptors, poets and novelists continue to meet there. It is a pl
Access
Train (gare de Rambouillet) + taxi (15 km) RER (Gare de Dourdan) + taxi (10 km) Autoroute A10 : Sortie n°10 Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines
Website
http://www.maison-triolet-aragon.com
Phone
01 30 41 20 15
Other
https://fr-fr.facebook.com/MaisonTrioletAragon
https://twitter.com/trioletaragon

Address
Moulin de Villeneuve - Rue de la Villeneuve 78730 Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France

48.572604, 1.935079

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