Pl. 09The Provence notebook
Villages & crafts
Skills, materials and language: santons, lavender, dry stone and Provençal.
Pl. 09.1 · 2 min read
The santons of Provence
Clay "little saints" born after the Revolution, a two-hundred-year-old Marseille fair, and a whole village of figures around the Nativity scene.
Pl. 09.2 · 2 min read
True lavender and lavandin
Two plants, two altitudes, two scents. How to tell them apart, how they are distilled, and why Sault celebrates lavender on 15 August.
Pl. 09.3 · 2 min read
Dry stone: bories and terraces
No mortar, no cement, and walls that have stood for centuries. A craft added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list in 2018.
Pl. 09.4 · 1 min read
The Provençal language, from Mistral to today
Provençal, one form of the langue d'oc, the poets of the Félibrige and Frédéric Mistral's Nobel Prize.