Description
French Letters is based on the letters and records of an Australian francophile who has spent most of his leisure time, and a good deal of his working life, in France and the French-speaking world. The reminiscences range over Paris, of course, Bordeaux and Lyon with their rich historic and gastronomic treasures; regional corners such as Grignan, in Provence, with its elegant literary connections, and the curiously-named Condom (in Gascony) with its links to the "Three Musketeers", and then Marseille with its maritime links to the French colonial world and to Outremer, to far-away French-influenced places such as Egypt, Indochina, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Quebec, Reunion Island and Tahiti. This is a light-hearted and yet thoughtful view of a wide and often little-known world, presented here in an easily accessible form for dreamers, adventurers, and armchair travellers.
Author: John Fiennes
Publisher: Olympia Publishers
Published: 10/26/2023
Pages: 378
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9781800745162
ISBN10: 1800745168
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
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