Literary France - Susannah's Top Ten Places to Visit
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There’s just so much to love about France – magnificent Paris, French wine and food, French style and fashion, all those wonderful Impressionist painters, and the glorious French countryside. But there’s also its beautiful language and the works of its superb writers. No country has won as many Nobel Prizes for Literature as has France – 15 in total.
See France through the eyes of its great authors and their works. I give you my Top Ten Literary Locations in France.
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France ― “the nearest thing to Paradise”” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
During the 19th century, some brilliant French writers changed the face of the novel and its purpose – Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Hugo and Zola were amongst them. And the 20th century also produced remarkable personalities – Proust with his madeleine, and ‘enfant terrible’ Arthur Rimbaud among them.
I’ve always been fascinated by the personalities of great French writers – so many of them are larger-than-life. They lived life to the full – sometimes to excess – with mistresses and lovers, the accumulation of enormous debts, lashings of French style, homes they couldn’t afford, and banquets and cookbooks as accompaniments. This talk will introduce you to some of those intriguing characters, from George Sand to Marcel Proust. It will take you into their memorable residences – chateaux and manor houses, apartments, a seaside villa, and a windmill – but it will also take you to places connected with their fictional creations, such as a prison and a medical museum. You will discover how these writers have been commemorated in France, with statues, museums, street names and plaques.
A list of books and I recommend to cover more of literary France. Have anything to add here? Let me know.
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Writers’ France: A Regional Panorama by John Ardagh
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
A Literary Guide to Provence by Daniel Vitaglione
France: Traveller’s Literary Companion by John Edmondson
France: A Traveller’s Literary Companion edited by William Rodarmor and Anna Livia
Linda Barnes
What a lovely hour and a half I’ve just spent! And yesterday I was at a Wine and Food lunch with one of the other travellers on Susannah’s tour of Provence, and we were talking about the walk with the 2 donkeys in the Cevenne! I will have to go straight to my album and notes, and relive it all again…..Thank you. Xx Linda Barnes
Susannah Fullerton
I am so pleased it brought back fabulous memories, Linda, and that you enjoyed it all. It was terribly hard choosing just 10 favourite places.