FrançaisArt of living
If we say the words sun, petanque, nap, relaxation, would you come? Living is an art for us in Provence
Booklet 'Christmas in Provence'
For Provençals, Christmas is the most beautiful holiday of the year, the most solemn, the one that is celebrated with the most joy, love, meditation, sincerity and traditions. Frédéric Mistral, our master, describes to us, with his usual genius, the atmosphere of this celebration, in his book 'Memory and storytelling'.
In Provence, Christmas begins on December 4, Saint Barbara's Day, and ends on Candlemas on February 2. These two months of calendar holidays are all the history and the wealth of the Provençal people, with meals, traditional dishes, customs such as Saint Barbara wheat, the nativity scene, the cacho fio, the Three Wise Men and the Christmases of Saboly.
On sale at the Pernes-les-Fontaines tourist office/7 pages/2€/Author: Pierre Gabert/By check or cash/No distance selling. Note: all Christmas traditions in Provence are present at the Museum of Comtadine Traditions (Maison Fléchier)
Book 'Pouèmé von Conté Escavarta'
The art of living... It is also the Provençal language! Discover this book of poems and stories by Roger Tourrette, a truly Comtadine work entirely in Provençal. These writings are the testimony of a local life with its traditions, its strengths, its strengths, its loves, its sorrows; Roger Tourrette, a native of Pernes for many generations, is a true peasant poet who sings Pernes and his childhood at the Portail Neuf with his fountain, his chapel and his people.
Roger is pleased to offer us his writings in Provençal, our language sung by Frédéric Mistral, and he did so in the year 2004, the year of the centenary of the Nobel Prize of the Master of Maillane and the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of Le Félibrige.
On sale at the Pernes-les-Fontaines tourist office/258 pages/20€/Author: Roger Tourrette/By check or cash/No distance selling
Book 'The Christmas cicada'
The art of living in Provence is also the singing accent of its inhabitants... But by the way, do you know where this joyful note of sunshine in the voice comes from? This cute story for children will reveal its origin to you, far from what you could imagine!
A story nicely illustrated by Séverine Pascal, written in French by Plume d'Éole and translated into Provençal by Nicole Neyron.
On sale at the Pernes-les-Fontaines tourist office/20€/Author: Plume d'Éole alias Maïté Michel/By check or cash/No distance selling.
CD + booklet: The musical heritage of Pernes-les-Fontaines
A cd on the musical heritage of Pernes, by Jean Coutarel. 22 titles from texts written, sung or composed by Pernes and performed by choirs, singers and musicians of today and Pernes for the most part. Lyrics and historical translations of the pieces are published in the booklet that accompanies this compact disc.
On sale at the Pernes-les-Fontaines tourist office/15€/By check or cash/No distance selling.
