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This captivating work will be of interest to travelers who enjoy more substance while visiting a beautiful region in France. -- Lois Vines, editor of Poe Abroad Provence has enthralled centuries of writers, from the troubadours, Petrarch, Nostradamus and Frederic Mistral to Sade, Flaubert, Camus, Cather, Beckett and Woolf. Daniel Vitaglione (A Dictionary of Idioms: French-American, American-French), who lives in the region, tracks its eminent history in A Literary Guide to Provence. He provides information both practical (hotels and restaurants) and cultural (festival listings), plus some background on the region's language, Provencal, still spoken 'in remote villages and among the older population.' Even better, however, Vitaglione provides a town-by-town tour of literary-historical sites: the abandoned monastery outside of Saint-Tropez, for example, where Guy de Maupassant encountered an elderly couple who had been in hiding since their youthful elopement. -- Publishers Weekly

Provence has enthralled centuries of writers, from the troubadours, Petrarch, Nostradamus and Frederic Mistral to Sade, Flaubert, Camus, Cather, Beckett and Woolf. Daniel Vitaglione ( A Dictionary of Idioms: French-American, American-French ), who lives in the region, tracks its eminent history in A Literary Guide to Provence. He provides information both practical (hotels and restaurants) and cultural (festival listings), plus some background on the region s language, Provencal, still spoken in remote villages and among the older population. Even better, however, Vitaglione provides a town-by-town tour of literary-historical sites: the abandoned monastery outside of Saint-Tropez, for example, where Guy de Maupassant encountered an elderly couple who had been in hiding since their youthful elopement. -- Publishers Weekly

Provence has enthralled centuries of writers, from the troubadours, Petrarch, Nostradamus and Frederic Mistral to Sade, Flaubert, Camus, Cather, Beckett and Woolf. Daniel Vitaglione ( A Dictionary of Idioms: French-American, American-French ), who lives in the region, tracks its eminent history in A Literary Guide to Provence . He provides information both practical (hotels and restaurants) and cultural (festival listings), plus some background on the region's language, Provencal, still spoken 'in remote villages and among the older population.' Even better, however, Vitaglione provides a town-by-town tour of literary-historical sites: the abandoned monastery outside of Saint-Tropez, for example, where Guy de Maupassant encountered an elderly couple who had been in hiding since their youthful elopement. -- Publishers Weekly

Provence has enthralled centuries of writers, from the troubadours, Petrarch, Nostradamus and Frederic Mistral to Sade, Flaubert, Camus, Cather, Beckett and Woolf. Daniel Vitaglione (A Dictionary of Idioms: French-American, American-French), who lives in the region, tracks its eminent history in A Literary Guide to Provence. He provides information both practical (hotels and restaurants) and cultural (festival listings), plus some background on the region's language, Provencal, still spoken `in remote villages and among the older population.' Even better, however, Vitaglione provides a town-by-town tour of literary-historical sites: the abandoned monastery outside of Saint-Tropez, for example, where Guy de Maupassant encountered an elderly couple who had been in hiding since their youthful elopement. -- Publishers Weekly This captivating work will be of interest to travelers who enjoy more substance while visiting a beautiful region in France. -- Lois Vines, editor of Poe Abroad

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Daniel Vitaglione was born in Marseilles, attended the Lycée Thiers and the University of Provence, and received his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has published A Dictionary of Idioms French American, American French. He now lives in Roquebrune in Provence.

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