13 September 2014

Roger Martin du Gard in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines (78)

Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, lived in Maisons-Laffitte from 1890 to 1895. He based the house above, in the place Wagram, on the patriarch Oliver Thibault's summer house in Les Thibault.

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