Provence电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Landscapes Of The Imagination

Preface

Introduction

Landscape: “Infinitely Complex Chiselling”

The Rhône And The Durance: “Poor Bunbury”

The Mistral And The Cicada: “I Hear The Symphonist More Than I Could Wish”

“Their Fervid Temperament Knows No Control”: Dissident Southerners.

Occitan And The Troubadours

“That Detestable Corruption Of Italian and French”

Restoring The Language: The Félibrige

“The Rational, Right And Proper Food”

“Oh, For A Beaker Full Of The Warm South”: Wine

Provence

Chapter One

The “Babylonian Captivity”

The Palace of the Popes: “An Impregnable Fortress, A Luxurious Palace, A Horrible Prison”

The Grand Tinel; Pope Clement’s Feast

Painting The Palace

Notre-Dame Des Doms

“Sur Le Pont d’Avignon”: The Pope’s Mule

The Petit Palais And The Musée Lapidaire

The Musée Calvet

The Avignon Festival

Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon

Chapter Two

Mont Ventoux

Fontaine-De-Vaucluse: Discoursing With Love

L’Isle Sur La Sorgue: “Delicious Streams”

Salon-De-Provence

Orange: “The Most Beautiful Wall”

Vaison-La-Romaine

Grignan

Chapter Three

Van Gogh’s Arles: “To Express, With Red And Green, The Terrible Passions Of Humanity”

The Arena

The Theatre: “Sisters Of Mireille”

Place Du Forum And The Cryptoportiques

Les Alyscamps

The Musée De L’Arles Antique

Saint-Trophime: “So Cruel, So Monstrous, Like A Chinese Nightmare”

The Musée Réattu And The Museon Arlaten

Montmajour

Chapter Four

Saint-Paul-De-Mausole: “Light Turning Into Conflagration”

Les Antiques

Glanum

Saint-Rémy-De-Provence

Les Baux: “Bastions And Buttresses And Coigns Of Vantage”

Chapter Five

The Plaine De La Crau: “Goblins Of Light”

The Camargue: “The Verges Of The Earth”

Les Saintes-Maries-De-La-Mer: “The Blue Whiteness Of The MilkyWay”

Saint-Gilles

Aigues-Mortes: “A Bright, Quiet Melancholy”

Chapter Six

Le Bon Roi René

Saint-Sauveur

The Burning Bush

The Musée Des Tapisseries And The Musée Du Vieil Aix

“The Houses Very High And The Streets Ample”

The Hôtel De Forbin: Royal Views

Aix-La-Somnolente

Zola’s Plassans

Cézanne And The Montagne Sainte-Victoire

The Musée Granet

Saint-Maximin And La Sainte Baume

Chapter Seven

Massalia: “Turning Towards The Greeks”

Vestiges: The Musée d’Histoire De Marseille, Musée Des Docks Romains And Centre De La Vieille Charité

Passing Through

Royal Arrivals

Plague

Pagnol’s Vieux-Port

The Holocaust And The Destruction Of The Vieux-Port

Galleys And Prisons; The Château d’If

“Black Docker”: Claude McKay And Ousmane Sembène

Churches And Cathedrals

Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation

Aubagne And La Treille

Souvenirs D’Enfance

Cassis: “Brilliant Yellow And Ink Black”

L’Estaque: “Masterful Smears And Smudges”

Chapter Eight

Roussillon

Lourmarin

Lacoste: “Making A Spectacle Of Oneself “

Ménerbes: “The Darling Buds Of Mayle”

Céreste

Manosque And Jean Giono

Le Contadour: “Une Expérience À La Bobi”

Chapter Nine

The Maison Carrée And The Carré d’Art

The Arena And Le Charroi de Nîmes: “They Will Have Bull Fights”

Seething With Heresy”: Religion In Nîmes

The Tour Magne And The Temple Of Diana

The Pont Du Gard: “The Measuring, Contriving Mind”

Tarascon: The Tarasque

Tartarin De Tarascon: “Prodigious Adventures”

Tarascon: The Château Du Roi René

Beaucaire

Fontvieille And Daudet’s Lettres De Mon Moulin

St.-Michel-De-Frigolet

Maillane: “Happy lizard, Drink Your Sun”

Uzès

Back Matter

Appendix

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