 In 1834, Balzac stayed in the commune, with Laure de Berny, at the "Calme Logis" of Madame de La Valette.He wrote there "Un drame au bord de la mer", which is set in nearby Le Croisic.The mathematician Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn drowned while swimming there with his colleague Pavel Alexandrov, who was greatly distressed by his failure to save his friend.