My twenty-five years in Provence: reflections on then and now [First edition] 9780451494535, 9780451494528, 0451494539, 0451494520

"The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers

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English Pages vi, 179 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: color illustrations; 20 cm Year 2018

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Table of contents :
Early days --
Home sweet home --
Getting closer --
Second impressions --
La politesse française --
Learning French, inch by inch --
Dinner at the Élysée Palace --
Nostalgia is not always what it used to be --
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful --
A midsummer night's treat --
Lunch break --
Read all about it --
A good place to be ill --
The pulse of the village --
Snapshots --
The weather forecast: more to come --
Blind luck --
Summer invasion, autumn exodus --
Hollywood comes to Provence --
Signs of summer --
A gift from Napoleon --
Then and now.

My twenty-five years in Provence: reflections on then and now [First edition]
 9780451494535, 9780451494528, 0451494539, 0451494520

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