

Provence: A Cultural History (2006, 2012) by Martin Garrett*.Provence: Art, Architecture, Landscape (2010) by Rolf Toman (and others)*.Provence: People, Places, Food: A Cultural Guide (2012) by Cheryl Robson and Martin N.

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Undiscouraged, she will create her own destiny…Īnd confront life and love on her own terms.This is the second in a continuing series of selective book lists about perennially interesting places.

For a headstrong young woman from a respectable family, an affair with such an intoxicating scoundrel can only spell heartbreak and ruin.īut Berthe refuses to resign herself to the life of quiet submission that Society has dictated for her. Her lover, despite his curiously devoted marriage to his frumpy, unappealing wife, Suzanne, and his many rumored dalliances with his own models. A mesmerizing, breathtaking rogue a shameless rou, undeterred and irresistible his life is a wildly overgrown garden of scandal. But as a woman, she finds herself sometimes overlooked in favor of her male counterparts Monet, Pissarro, Degas.Īnd there is one great artist among them who captivates young Berthe like none other: the celebrated genius douard Manet. Passionate, beautiful, and utterly devoted to her art, Berthe Morisot is determined to be recognized as an important painter. Paris in the 1860s: a magnificent time of expression, where brilliant young artists rebel against the stodginess of the past to freely explore new styles of creating and bold new ways of living.
