A Summer in Gascony - Discovering the Other South of France

A Summer in Gascony is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance and a lifelong love affair with Gascony, with its village festivals, dusty roads and sun-baked wine country. In the tiny hamlet of Péguilhan the author is introduced to the Gascon way of life – working the fields, shepherding and slaughtering the sheep, feeding the cattle, harvesting the wheat, watering the crops – and discovers a unique people, fiercely proud of their independent heritage. Gascony is a place where the pace of life and the rate of progress are a little out of step with the rest of France. Martin Calder is senior lecturer in French at the University of Bristol, he has lived and worked in Paris and other areas of France, but is always drawn back to Gascony, this far southwest corner of France appeals to his enjoyment of the simple pleasures of life on the land, the sights and smells of the country and good food and wine.


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