A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
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appears in About France, Travel, and Travel.
National Bestseller In this witty and warmhearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a longcherished dream and actually move into a 200yearold stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secr...
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