rejseinspiration 319s - Indbi..en slagsshirting, med smudsomslag. - som ny. - illustreret med mange storartede farvefotos Mr. Ardagh, and a very capable photographer, Mayotte Magnus, have produced a truly extraordinary book that deserves a 6-star rating. The topic is immense; the introduction rolled out significant caveats. Paris is omitted, requiring its own book. Writers who were not associated with a particular area, likewise. Non-French writers who worked in France are included. Ample quotes from the author's work that ties to a specific landscape or place are included. Each regional section contains an excellent map, identifying an author with a particular town. Ms. Magnus pictures, some full page and in color, do so much to give the reader a feel for the writer's locale. One of the many strengths of the book is the range of writers, including those I had never heard of. But my favorites were very much included. There is George Sand, one of the first regional writers, in her beloved Black Valley of the Berry. There is Alain-Fournier, with a good explanation of his fictional juxtaposition of the land of the southern Berry, and his schoolhouse at Epineuil, and the landscape of the Sologne. Marcel Proust is one of France's most essential writers, and his haunts at Iliers-Combray, the Pre Catelan garden, and at Cabourg are well-covered. So too is Flaubert's Rouen and Ry, the model for his Yonville. Of course not all settings enchanted a writer, Rimbaud so detested the "petty bourgeoisie" environment of his native Charlesville-Mezieres that he sought refuge in Ethiopia. There is a beautiful photo over the Lac du Bourget, highlighting the "cat's tooth," which served as a background for Rousseau's "Confessions" in nearby Chambery. The "giants" of French literature, Balzac and Zola are depicted in detail. Ardagh of course covers Provence, with Giono, Pagnol, Mistral and numerous others. Ardagh also incorporates the many foreigner writers who have sought solace in France. Among others, he discusses the Czech writer Milan Kundera who wrote "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" in Rennes, Laurence Wylie's "Village in the Vaucluse," a wonderful portrait of Roussillon just after World War II, and Graham Green's time on the Cote d'Azur, in which he involved himself in the local politics of Nice, by writing "J'Accuse." Others included Henry James, Maugham, Thomas Hardy, Petrarch and Fitzgerald. Sure one needs a guidebook to France that has hotel and restaurant

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