Secret French Riviera Guide

Cassely, Jean-Pierre

ISBN 10: 2361958694 / ISBN 13: 9782361958695

Editore: Jonglez Publishing, 2025

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Codice articolo GB-9782361958695

Riassunto:

A game of pétanque played with square boules, an astonishing aerial well, stained-plastic windows, a marble bench built in memory of the Queen of England’s haemophiliac son, the instruments oft he Passion of Christ, a cannon that fires cherry stones, a good-luck pig, a mysterious pyramid, a monument to secret agents, an entire village that ‘moved house’, a gas mask for horses, a statue sculpted by Saint Luke, a chapel showing the dead rising from their tombs, a trapdoor in the nave of a church that opens onto a rushing torrent, a restaurant in an Orient Express railway car, Babar’s beach, Tintin’s Black Island, and Sleeping Beauty’s chateau, a chance to admire the Riviera’s first pair of naked breasts, or spend the night sleeping in a tree …

Informazioni sull'autore: Jean-Pierre Cassely spent ten years spent ten years working for the French television network, France 3, before becoming an independent in the field of television, video and sound (together with his long-time partner Philippe Carrese).His commentaries concerning his discoveries, broadcast daily on France Bleue Provence radio, under the apt title of ‘Unusual Provence’, took a humorous and sometimes provocative ‘popular-historical’ approach. Further information on these astonishing accounts can be found at: www.provence-insolite.org

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Titolo: Secret French Riviera Guide
Casa editrice: Jonglez Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2025
Legatura: PAP
Condizione: New
Edizione: terza edizione