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Question
of Loyalties |
Girl
at the Lion D'or |
Fields
of Glory |
Of
Illustrious Men |
The
First Man |
A
Little Tour of France |
The
Complete Essays |
Living
and Working in France 8th Edition |
Retiring
in France |
Songs of the Women Troubadours |
General Travel Guides
Cross-Channel |
Michelin
Red Guide to France |
Michelin
Green Guide to the Wines of France |
Northern France and Paris Region Green Guide
(Michelin Green Guides) |
Motor-flight
through France |
Paris Travel, History and interest books
Paris: A Literary Companion by Ian Littlewood (Murray)
Paris by Julian Green (Marion Boyars). A collection of fond memories of the city, where he was born in 1900.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Arrow)
Quartet by Jean Rhys (Penguin)
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys (Penguin)
Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell(Penguin)
Tales of the New Babylon by Rupert Christiansen (Minerva). The Spirit of the Belle Epoque.
Paris after the Liberation by Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin)
Paris Notebooks by Mavis Gallant (Hamish Hamilton)
Foriegn Correspondent by Peter Lennon (Picador)
Cote D'Azur
May We Borrow Your Husband by Graham Greene (Penguin)
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene (Penguin). Two stories, by the author who lived in the port of Antibes.
The Facts of Life by Somerset Maugham, who lived at Cap Ferrat.
The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly (Penguin)
Jigsaw by Sybil Bedford (Penguin)
The Villa Golitsyn by Pier Paul read (Sceptre)
The Statement by Brian Moore (Bloomsbury)
Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin)
Corsica
Granite Island by Dorothy Carrington (Penguin)
The Dream Hunters of Corsica by Dorothy Carrington (Phoenix)
Provence
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giorno (Harvill). Provence during the cholera epidemic of the 1830's.
Jean de Florette by Marcel Pagnol (Picador)
Manon des Sources by Marcel Pagnol (Picador)
Fanny by Marcel Pagnol (Picador/Nelson)
Marius by Marcel Pagnol (Picador/Nelson)
Cesar by Marcel Pagnol (Picador/Nelson)
Village in the Vaucluse by Laurence Wylie (Harvard)
Dictionnaire des Communes Vaucluse by Robert Bailly (Barthélemy, Avignon)1985
Guide de la Provence mysterieuse, by Jean-Paul Clebert (Tchou)1986
Old Provence by Theodore A Cook (Rivington, London)1905
The Carmargue by Carol Dix (Gollancz, London)1975
A Guide to Provence by Michael Jacobs (Viking, London)1988
Provence and the Côte D'Azur, (Phaidon, London)1986
Memoirs by Frederic Mistral (Arnold, London) 1907
Villages de Provence by Alaine Paire and Christian Sarramon (Rivages, Marseille)1984
Les Belles Heures du Pays d'Arles (Lafitte, Marseille)1984
Aspects of Provence by James Pope-Hennesey (Longman, London)1952
Two Towns in Provence by MJK Fisher
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Next Time Round in Provence by Ian Norrie (Aurum Press, London)1995
Perfume from Provence by Lady Fortescue (Black Swan)
Sunset by Lady Fortescue (Black Swan)
"I have come across the most delightful books, written by Lady Fortescue in the early 1930s,
about her trials and tribulations whilst living in Provence." A.W. ( from e-mail to Le-Guide.Com)
Languedoc
Montaillou by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Study of life in a village after the suppression of the Cathars
An Englishman in the Midi by John P Harris (BBC Publications) 1992
Life in and around a small village in the Languedoc
Les Landes
Therese by Francois Mauriac (Penguin)
The Frontenac Mystery by Francois Mauriac (Penguin)
Cevennes
Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (OUP)
Footsteps by Richard Holmes (Flamingo)
Dordogne
Next time round in Dordogne by Ian Norrie.
Southern France
Three Rivers of France by Freda White (Pavillion)
The South of France (Cadogan Guides)
West of the Rhône by Freda White (Faber, London) 1964
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