Alain Fournier lived and described the village in his novel Le Grand Meaulnes.
In 1940, Fedorovitch did stage design and "simple but gorgeous costumes" for choreographer Andrée Howard's best known work La fête étrange, for London Ballet, based on an episode in Alain Fournier's novel Le Grand Meaulnes.
Alain Delon | Alain Bashung | Alain Resnais | Alain Prost | Alain Whyte | Alain Touraine | Alain Connes | Alain Badiou | Alain Souchon | Alain Chamfort | Alain Juppé | Jehan Alain | Alain Rohr | Alain Ducasse | Pierre Simon Fournier | Alain Veinstein | Alain Tanner | Alain Robert | Alain-Fournier | Alain Bosquet | Vernel Fournier | Pierre Fournier | Jean Alfred Fournier | Jacques-Alain Miller | Daniel Fournier | Alain Lombard | Alain de Mijolla | Alain de Botton | Alain de Benoist | Alain Daniélou |
To avoid their meetings attracting the attention of the Germans and the French police, they set up a "literary society", Les amis d'Alain-Fournier (Friends of Alain-Fournier).
Famous French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as Jean Giraudoux, Alain-Fournier and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
Other film roles include the leads in the shorts 'Seared', Love Letters, 'The Lost Domain', a cinematic take on Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and 'Post' directed by Debs Gardner-Paterson.
Le Grand Meaulnes, a novel by Alain-Fournier (one of several English translations of the title)