Village in the Vaucluse – Laurence William Wylie

Laurence Wylie’s remarkably warm and human account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic description of their culture. Since 1950, when Wylie began his study of Peyrane, to which he has returned on many occasions since, France has become a primarily industrial nation–and French village life has changed in many ways.

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Laurence Wylie (1909-1996) was an authority on French language and culture who spent decades in pursuit of the essence of the French soul. Nice remembrance from Harvard here.