PHOTOGRAPHS OF PROVENCE

I present my photographs to you
which illustrate the beauty of my area
: THE ALPS OF HIGH PROVENCE.
first of all my village Manosque
With the foot of the covered
Gold Mount of olive-trees which
dominates right bank the Durance

“this beautiful round centre is a hill”
JEAN GIONO
then a little history in 1516 François 1st
came has Manosque: one tells
that the girl of the consul Voland
nobody of a great beauty preferred
to rise her face rather than to
expose itself to the requests
of the king of the nickname of modest
which one gives has Manosque
(Manosque the modest one).
the hill of the gold
mount and its tower and then:
JEAN GIONO Lyric poet and
novelist this writer complexes
has to leave a novel very to us variee.