The spa towns have been welcoming places for authors, who have set their crimes (Maigret in Vichy or Spa, etc.) or their romances, and portrayed a world at times evanescent and enchanting, placed in settings which evoke the enchantment of a film or still depicting the adventures of a radiant capitalism, such as Guy de Maupassant in Mont-Oriol, or simply the tale of one of the stops along their journeys. Yet travel literature is a literary genre, and it is first and foremost literature in the proper sense of the word in which some authors have managed to cross the search for new surroundings with that of the most recent European literary movements, creating synergies between the travelogue and literary criticism.

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