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The Murdered House
One dark night in the winter of 1896, in remote upper Provence, a family is brutally massacred. Only a three-week-old baby miraculously survives. In 1920, the orphan, S-raphin Monge, finally returns home from the war to pursue the truth. Haunted by the image of his mother's dying moments, he turns on the house that has seen such misery, destroying it stone by stone. As the walls crumble, the killers' identities are laid bare and his anger turns to vengeance. But for every murder S-raphin plots, another hand silently executes it in his place.
Death in the Truffle Wood
Banon is a small, peaceful village in upper Provence, where the local community's principal source of income comes from the cultivation and sale of truffles. When a group of society's drop-outs choose to set up home on the outskirts of the village, trouble ensues.
Innocence
It is June 1945. The war is over. Early one morning as dawn breaks over the hills of Provence, Pierrot, a 15-year-old by hunting for snails, stumbles across the body of Capitaine Patrocle, a hero of the local Resistance. He has been murdered.In the dead man's wallet Pierrot finds a letter, written on blue paper, which he conceals beneath his beret. It provides the key to the dramatic events that lie at the heart of this haunting and unforgettable story of illicit passions and pitiless revenge, and leads, ultimately, to the boy's association with the beautiful Madame Henry and to his introduction to the mysteries of love.
The Messengers of Death
Emile Pencenat is in a cemetery, designing his own ornate tomb. In a disused postbox by the gate he discovers an envelope addressed to a Mlle Veronique Champourcieux. He is puzzled but, being a former postman, he dutifully purchases a stamp and posts the letter. When the body of this same Mlle Veronique is later discovered - pinned to her own piano by a bayonet attached to an ancient rifle - Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve one of the most bizarre crimes imaginable. Tautly plotted and brimming with suspense, Magnan's latest novel to be translated into English is a story of dark vengeance and avarice, linking the peasant community of Upper Provence to nineteenth-century South Africa.
Beyond the Grave
After avenging the murder of his family, the enigmatic Seraphin Monge vanishes and is believed to have died in an avalanche, but sightings of him in his small town have the villagers questioning if he is indeed dead or alive.
The Essence of Provence
The extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Olivier Baussan and the roadside soap stand that became L’Occitane, one of the world’s most successful purveyors of natural fragrances. Founded in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, the now world-renowned fragrance company L’Occitane, “a woman of Provence” in Old French, was inspired by the essences of lavender and honeysuckle, rosemary, sage, and thyme indigenous to his childhood home in the south of France. In fact, it had been since the mid-1950s that Provence had been working its magic on the Baussan family, who left their urban life for a farm in Ganagobie when their son Olivier was only six months old. Blessed with a wonderfully acute sense of s...
Le parme convient à Laviolette
Un tueur de cochons, résistant de la première heure, est assassiné au col des Garcinets, Basses-Alpes. Arme du crime : de l'huile. À quelques encablures, dans le village de Piégut, le célèbre commissaire Laviolette dépérit à cause d'un chagrin d'amour, ce qui, à soixante-quinze ans, pourrait paraître comique à tous ceux qui n'ont pas encore soixante-quinze ans. Le juge Chabrand veut lui confier l'affaire. Laquelle n'aurait jamais ému le commissaire, si un autre crime n'était commis à Puimoisson. Encore un tueur de cochons. Et un résistant. Arme du crime : des abeilles. Petite précision : les deux crimes auraient pu passer pour des accidents, si le coupable n'avait pris la p...
Experiencing Provence in the Regional Imagery of Peter Mayle and Pierre Magnan
Place-defining novelists convey regional imagery and regional sense of place to a wide audience, thus shaping popular perceptions of regions. Peter Mayle and Pierre Magnan are the most recent place-defining novelists of Provence, France. This research compares each author's regional imagery and sense of place to understand what it means for each author to be in Provence. Place-name mapping geographically frames each authors' regional imagery and sense of place. Qualitative coding and close readings of selected texts for each author identify sets of regional imagery, including nature and culture imagery, which help develop a sense of place for Provence. The subjectivities of qualitative codin...
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Das Zimmer hinter dem Spiegel
Große Kriminalliteratur aus der Provence von Pierre Magnan Drei Morde scheuchen das schläfrige Provencestädtchen Digne auf. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass die Opfer mit einer Steinschleuder getötet wurden. Man hat eine merkwürdig kleine Gestalt beim Steinesuchen an der Bléone gesehen. Kommissar Laviolette, dessen Phantasie vor nichts zurückschreckt, hat einen ungeheuerlichen Verdacht ... (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)
