DAISY AUDOUX MUSEUM

Opened since early April 2015, the Musée Marguerite Audoux presents a unique and authentic collection, on three parade halls, evoking the life and work of this orphan child sent to this village at the age of 14 in order to become shepherd. This did not prevent him from being a writer and received the Femina Prize in 1910 for her book Marie-Claire.

The title of this book used in the creation of the eponymous weekly that was born in 1937, the year of the author's disappearance who lived 37 years in the nineteenth century (born in 1863) and 37 others in the twentieth century: a turning point in the history of France and of Europe. His sensitivity is sharpened to know his friendships with his major writers, Alain-Fournier, André Gide, Octave Mirbeau, Léon Paul-Fargue, Jean Giraudoux, Valéry Larbaud, Maurice Genevoix.

At the museum on October 6, 2017, a letter dated March 2, 1934 was put forward for Maurice Genevoix. We are curious about his personal objects, his correspondence, his original manuscripts and his furniture signed by Francis Jourdain.

The Sologne is the cradle of the author who amounts to Paris became seamless and acceded to the status of writer. In addition to that! As so well stated at the end of his preface Octave Mirbeau: Read Marie-Claire… And when you read it, without wishing to hurt anyone, you will wonder which one of our writers - and I speak of the most glorious - could have written such a book, with this impeccable measure, purity and radiant grandeur. " Not forgetting that his real name was Donquichotte, because his father, a child found, was appointed by an employee of town hall! Marguerite Audoux: A story or a question of destiny!