3 real historical locations · France
Suite Française is a WWII film set on the Western Front during 1941. CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning France. Each pin marks the actual place depicted - not where the film was shot, but where the historical events happened.
A French village in Burgundy in 1941 under German occupation — a young widow and the German officer billeted at her farmhouse develop a forbidden relationshi...
Suite Française is based on the unfinished novel of Irène Némirovsky, a Russian-born Jewish writer living in France. She was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in July 1942, where she died of typhus. Her manuscript wa...
View location →The fictional village of Bussy — based on Issy-l'Évêque where Irène Némirovsky lived — hosts German officers billetted with French families. Lucile Angellier...
Suite Française was written by Irène Némirovsky between 1940 and 1942. She was arrested as a Jew and died at Auschwitz in August 1942. The manuscript lay unread in a suitcase for 64 years before publication.
View location →The real village where Irène Némirovsky wrote Suite Française while in hiding, observing the German occupation and French collaboration with a writer's cold ...
Irène Némirovsky was arrested at Issy-l'Évêque on 13 July 1942, deported to Auschwitz, and died there on 17 August 1942. Her daughters carried the manuscript across Europe not knowing what it contained.
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