A Literary Guide to Provence

ISBN: 0804010358

Author: Vitaglione, Daniel

Condition: New

Provence through the eyes of its writers-those who wrote of it in Provenal or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beauty-that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence. In this compact travel guide, Marseilles native Daniel Vitaglione presents a literary panorama of the region of southern France from the Avignon of Mistral to Colettes St. Tropez.Including such sites as the birthplace of Nostradamus and the ruins of the Marquis de Sades castle, A Literary Guide to Provence presents a thousand years of history entwined with maps and photos that provide readers on tour with a sense of the historical import of this most beautiful of regions even as they experience it firsthand.Both authors of Provenal ancestry and those who came to love and live in Provence are featured in this comprehensive and enchanting picture of the garden place of France. The Riviera enticed Virginia Woolf. Toulon inspired two novels by Georges Sand. Robert Louis Stevenson resided in Hyres, as did Edith Wharton. Le Lavandou was Willa Cathers favorite place. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in St. Raphael and Juan-les-Pins, where he wrote Tender is the Night.This illustrated guide follows in these writers footsteps, and the practical information on hotels and restaurants (phones, web sites, email, etc.) make it the ideal traveling companion for armchair tourists and those who cannot resist seeing Provence for themselves.