Épineuil-le-Fleuriel

Geography

Population

Sights

• St Martin's church, dating from the twelfth century.
• The eighteenth-century chateau of Cornançay.
• The nineteenth-century school and museum of writer Alain-Fournier.
• A feudal motte with a moat.
• Traces of another medieval castle.
• The chateau of Fougerolles.
• Old tile works at la Bouchatte.
• A washhouse at Cornançay.

  Personalities

• Alain-Fournier, writer, spent his childhood here, where his parents taught at the school. The setting of his novel, Le Grand Meaulnes, is based on the area around the village.