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Provence and Côte d'Azur : Top 10 Writers in Provence

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1. Frédéric Mistral

This Nobel Prize-winner (1830–1914) wrote epic poems based on local lore.
2. Alexandre Dumas

Dumas (1802–70) used the Château d’If (see Château d’If) as the grim backdrop to The Count of Monte Cristo (1845).
3. Victor Hugo

Hugo (1802–85) set the early chapters of his epic novel Les Misérables (1862) in Digne-les-Bains.
4. Albert Camus

This French author and existentialist (1913–60) wrote his autobiography at Lourmarin.
5. Alphonse Daudet

Daudet (1849–97) is best remembered for Tartarin de Tarascon , the tale of a Provençal bumpkin (see La Tarasque, Tarascon).
6. Graham Greene

The English novelist (1914–91) retired to Nice, where he wrote J’Accuse – the Dark Side of Nice (1982).
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The US writer (1896–1940) stayed at Juan-les-Pins in 1926 to write his novel Tender is the Night .
8. Ernest Hemingway

Another US visitor to Provence, Hemingway (1898–1961) set The Garden of Eden in La Napoule.
9. Marcel Pagnol

The French author and film director (1895–1974) wrote L’Eau des Collines (1963), later filmed as Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources .
10. Colette

Colette (1873–1954) wrote charmingly of St-Tropez in La Naissance du Jour (1928).