More than 1300 pages: all that was needed to illustrate the inexhaustible charms of Provence through literature. Frédéric d'Agay offers us an anthology commented with erudition and gluttony, skilfully and lovingly composed, and presented chronologically, from Petrarch to Giono (who died half a century ago), via Stendhal, Maupassant, Mistral, Henri Bosco , who all sang "this land so beautiful in its very aridity" , as Adolphe Thiers said.
Marseille is a magnificent city that crashes and displeases at first sight by the harshness of its climate and its inhabitants
George SandArles, Avignon, Manosque, Fréjus, Cassis, Antibes, Nice (attached to France in 1860), Marseille, the Luberon, the Verdon gorges, Les Baux, the causses, the Drôme Provençale, the gulf of Saint-Tropez, nicknamed "Provence of Provence", parade here in an enchanted and luminous whirlwind, evoked through the landscapes, their shores, monuments and churches, characters, folklore, gastronomy, language, historical evocations, trees and flora (oleanders, palm trees, fig trees,
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