On Friday 4 September 1914, after stopping at Fleury, Maurice Genevoix and Those of 14 eat their evening meal in the village and spend the night there. He says that he drank “an unpleasant spoilt plonk that leaves an inky taste in the mouth”.
He then sleeps on the straw in a barn with his men.
Other features of interest in the village: grave of Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934), President of the Republic during the First World War.