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...Will Camus make it there? Though Jean Camus has rejected Sarkozy's request to move the writer's ashes from the Luberon region, where he was buried following his death in a car crash in 1960, his twin sister Catherine, who has managed her father's estate, is divided on the issue. Catherine appears to be less politicized in her thinking and has said that her father's place in the Panthéon could "be a symbol for those for whom life is very hard" - a reference to Albert Camus' underprivileged youth in colonial Algeria. (See pictures of Paris...
...foreseeable future, at least, Camus will continue to rest in Luberon, though probably not entirely in peace...
France has been good to Peter Mayle. With the enormous success 14 years ago of A Year in Provence, about the adventures of Mayle and his wife after they moved from England to restore an 18th century farmhouse in the Luberon, he pioneered the Anglos-in-paradise genre. Every few years now he produces a new book to remind the rest of us worker bees what we're missing by not rolling in honey all day in the south of France, that great sunlit throne room of the middle-class imagination. In Mayle's books, both the novels...
...Malkovich is nothing like his scary screen personas. "I'm not the least bit cynical or manipulative," he says - but with enough forced grace to make you wonder whether he is being just that. He left America 13 years ago and for almost a decade has lived in the Luberon region of Provence with his partner, Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children, who speak French with a Provençal twang. He feels right at home in Europe where, he says, gifted people aren't pigeonholed. America has experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late...
...newly retired baby boomers don't entirely ignore the bright lights of the city. They have a pied-a-terre in Paris, a three-hour train ride away, and frequently visit Aix-en-Provence, an hour's drive over the Luberon Mountains...
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