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Provence A-Z

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Provence A-Z

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.

In more than 170 entries he writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin), as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the ProvenÃ§al character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the museum of the French Foreign Legion, the museum of the corkscrew, the origins of â€œLa Marseillaise,â€ and a bawdy folklore character named Fanny.

And, of course, he writes about food and drink: vin rosÃ©, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The wonderful accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the yearsâ€”matchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.
Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayleâ€™s ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400044429

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