Aix En Provence Quotes

Dark Sunglasses: You may want to pick up a pair of especially dark glasses (to be more discreet when appreciating the beautiful people of Aix-en-Provence).

Irène Fayolle and Gabriel Prudent met in Aix-en-Provence in 1981. She was forty, he fifty.

In the seventeenth century there occurred the spiritual possession by divers demons of the nuns belonging to the Ursuline convent at Aix-en-Provence. Excommunication was soon in coming for the blighted sisters, who had been seduced into assorted blasphemies by the likes of Grésil, Sonnillon, and Vérin. De Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal respectively characterizes these demons, in the words of an unknown translator, as “the one who glistens horribly like a rainbow of insects; the one who quivers in a horrible manner; and the one who moves with a particular creeping motion.

The months passed, until the day a woman entered Irène Fayolle’s rose-nursery to order a spray of white roses to be delivered to Aix-en-Provence. As she filled in the delivery note, Irène saw that the roses were to be taken to Aix’s Saint-Pierre cemetery, for Mme Martine Robin, wife of Gabriel Prudent.

دراسة تاريخية حاول المؤلف من خلالها إماطة اللثام عن إحدى أهم المقاومات الشعبية المسلحة التي اندلعت في وجه المستدمر الفرنسي بمنطقة بوسعادة، وإبراز مدى مساهمتها في النضال الوطني الجزائري. واعتمد في انجازها -بالدرجة الأولى- على وثائق الأرشيف الفرنسي المحفوظة بمركز أرشيف ما وراء البحار (Archives nationales d'outre-mer) بآكس أون بروفانس (Aix-en-Provence) وكتابات الضباط والمترجمين الفرنسيين الذين عايشوا فترة الدراسة وأرّخوا لها، أمثال : شارل فيرو والكلونيل روبن و تروملي و آرنو و أوكابيتان وبورجاد ولوين رين .. وغيرهم.

En 1969, j'assistais à Aix-en-Provence à un colloque sur la politique des Etats indépendants du Maghreb (Etats successeurs, disait la note de présentation). Un participant, ancien membre du service psychologique de l'armée française lors de la guerre d'Algérie, avait affirmé : "De grâce cessez de parler de ces Etats comme s'ils étaient contemporains du nôtre, ils ressemblent à celui de Louis le Hutin." J'avais alors noté ceci : - Je sais maintenant ce que sera la politique de nos ennemis d'hier ; ils critiqueront les gouvernements nationaux (les Etats successeurs) d'un point de vue de gauche. A chaque occasion, ils s'écriront : Et la pauvreté ? L'analphabétisme ? Les disparités sociales? Les droits de la femme ? L’intolérance religieuse ? Ils exigeront que nous réalisions des miracles, que nous fassions en quelques années ce qu'ils ne firent pas en plus d'un siècle, ce qu'ils disaient être incompatible avec nos coutumes, contraire à notre intérêt bien compris. Malheureusement, ils gagneront très vite la sympathie des jeunes, toujours impatiens et vite déçus." p198-199

Markets in Provence No region is such a market-must. Be it fresh fish by the port in seafaring Marseille, early summer's strings of pink garlic, Cavaillon melons and cherries all summer long or wintertime's earthy 'black diamond' truffles, Provence thrives on a bounty of local produce – piled high each morning at the market. Every town and village has one, but those in Aix-en-Provence and Antibes are particularly atmospheric. Take your own bag to stock up on dried herbs, green and black olives marinated a dozen different ways, courgette flowers and tangy olive oils.

In Aix we take pride in cultivating our minds, it’s our desire and tradition to do so’, claimed Maurice Gontard. He pointed out that the great Provençal poet, Frederic Mistral, had originally found Aix rather cold, but had finally declared that there was a ‘certain charm to the place’. Music had always played an important role in Aix and there were many active musical societies. The theatre was well frequented, there was a university and various local heritage and language societies to keep the past alive, to show that Aix had its own cultural identity.