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A Disgraceful Affair
by Bianca Lamblin

Lamblin's account of her affair in 1940 with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Matisse's War
by Peter Everett

A novel about the relationship of Louis Aragon to Henri Matisse from 1939-45

Question of Loyalties
by Allan Massie

A superb novel about betrayal, love, nationality at the time of Vichy France

Girl at the Lion D'or
by Sebastian Faulks


Love and desire in a small French town in the 1930s

Fields of Glory
by Jean Rouard


A wonderful novel

Of Illustrious Men
by Jean Rouard


A wonderful novel

The First Man
by Albert Camus


Autobiographical novel found at the car accident that took Camus's life - about early years in Algeria

A Little Tour of France
by Henry James

A literary classic - Henry travels through France!!

The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne

A guide to living life to the full

Living and Working in France 8th Edition
by David Hampshire

One of the best guides to living in France - a bible to many!

Retiring in France
by David Hampshire

All you need to know about enjoying your retirement in France.

Songs of the Women Troubadours
by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, Sarah White

A glorious book about the great women troubadours of Languedoc



General Travel Guides


Cross-Channel
by Julian Barnes

Amusing selection of stories of Anglo-French themes

Michelin Red Guide to France


The definitive guide to restaurants and hotels in France

Michelin Green Guide to the Wines of France


A bible for knowing the terroirs and the wines of France

Northern France and Paris Region Green Guide (Michelin Green Guides)

Amusing selection of stories of Anglo-French themes

Motor-flight through France
by Edith Wharton

Tales of the early days of motor car travel in France (1900-1910)



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)

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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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