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Index
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
Further Reading
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