Are there any tourist sites in Normandy for the famous writers who were born there?

Question

Eg, Flaubert or Maupassant.

Can you visit birthplaces etc. I need specific details. Does anyone know any sites where I can find out more about these places?

Answer 1

There is a Normandy tourism site here: http://195.7.104.1/normandy/gb/index.asp

On the Rouen City website (http://www.rouentourisme.com/default.asp... they give the following information:

Museum of Flaubert and Medicine

The Museum is located in the house where the novelist Gustave Flaubert was born. You can see souvenirs of Flaubert, pharmaceutical jars, surgical instruments, exhibits on childbirth (including an 18th-century birthing dummy) and on newborns (baby bottle collection), hospital furnishings and statues of healing saints. There is also a medicinal garden.

Tel. [phone].

Open on Tuesday from 10.00am to 6.00pm,

from Wednesday to Saturday from 10.00am to 12.00am and from 2.00pm to 6.00pm.

Closed on Sunday, on Monday and bank holidays.

This website is for the birthplace of Maupassant: http://www.chateaumiromesnil.com/

Answer 2

Try buying a Normandy Handbook,

Try Normandy by Clare Hargreaves from Cadogan Guides. It's a great book and gives you lots of info about region's artists. Great specific details.