It was at the end of the world, in Omonville-la-Petite, that Jacques Prévert chose to settle: the poet of “Autumn Leaves” and screenwriter of “Les Enfants du Paradis” spent his final years here, until his death in 1977.
His house, now a museum, is visited the way you enter a friend’s home: workshops, collages, photographs and the garden bring back Prévert’s tender, irreverent world, far from the Parisian bustle he had fled for La Hague.
The poet rests in the little village cemetery, a few steps away. A short, moving visit that combines perfectly with Port Racine — billed as the smallest harbour in France — right next door.
Stay at the château
Make the château your base for this and everything else in the guide: four B&B rooms from €95 a night, four self-catering cottages from €100 a night, 35 minutes from the Cherbourg ferry. Best rate when you book direct.