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class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Arrival of Christianity (3rd–6th centuries)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arrival_of_Christianity_(3rd–6th_centuries)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Germanic_invasions,_Merovingians_and_Carolingians_(5th–9th_centuries)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germanic_invasions,_Merovingians_and_Carolingians_(5th–9th_centuries)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Germanic invasions, Merovingians and Carolingians (5th–9th centuries)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germanic_invasions,_Merovingians_and_Carolingians_(5th–9th_centuries)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fraxinet,_the_Counts_of_Provence_(9th–13th_centuries)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fraxinet,_the_Counts_of_Provence_(9th–13th_centuries)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Fraxinet, the Counts of Provence (9th–13th centuries)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fraxinet,_the_Counts_of_Provence_(9th–13th_centuries)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_popes_in_Avignon_(14th_century)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_popes_in_Avignon_(14th_century)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>The popes in Avignon (14th century)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_popes_in_Avignon_(14th_century)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Good_King_René,_the_last_ruler_of_Provence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Good_King_René,_the_last_ruler_of_Provence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.9</span> <span>Good King René, the last ruler of Provence</span> </div> </a> <ul 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<span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Camargue</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Camargue-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mountains" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mountains"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Mountains</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mountains-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Calanques" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Calanques"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>The Calanques</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Calanques-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Landscapes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Landscapes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Landscapes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Landscapes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Climate</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Climate-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Climate subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bouches-du-Rhône" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bouches-du-Rhône"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Bouches-du-Rhône</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bouches-du-Rhône-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Var" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Var"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Var</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Var-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alpes-Maritimes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alpes-Maritimes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Alpes-Maritimes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alpes-Maritimes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alpes-de-Haute-Provence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alpes-de-Haute-Provence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Alpes-de-Haute-Provence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alpes-de-Haute-Provence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vaucluse" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vaucluse"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Vaucluse</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vaucluse-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Culture</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Culture-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Culture subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Art" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Art"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Art</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Architecture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> 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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Gallery of Provence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery_of_Provence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul 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interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profentse" title="Profentse – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Profentse" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B3" title="بروفنس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بروفنس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenza" title="Provenza – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Provenza" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenza" title="Provenza – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Provenza" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provans" title="Provans – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Provans" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81" title="Праванс – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Праванс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81" title="Праванс – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Праванс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81" title="Прованс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Прованс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%95%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9D%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A6%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8D" title="ཕོ་རོའོ་ཝང་སི། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཕོ་རོའོ་ཝང་སི།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prova%C3%B1s" title="Provañs – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Provañs" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven%C3%A7a" title="Provença – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Provença" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profens" title="Profens – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Profens" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Προβηγκία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Προβηγκία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenza" title="Provenza – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Provenza" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenco" title="Provenco – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Provenco" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proventza" title="Proventza – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Proventza" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3" title="پروانس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پروانس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenza" title="Provenza – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Provenza" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence-s%C3%A9n" title="Provence-sén – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Provence-sén" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%EB%B0%A9%EC%8A%A4" title="프로방스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="프로방스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%BD" title="Պրովանս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Պրովանս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provansa" title="Provansa – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Provansa" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenza" title="Provenza – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Provenza" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A1" title="פרובאנס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="פרובאנס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="პროვანსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="პროვანსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prowansj%C3%B4" title="Prowansjô – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="Prowansjô" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81" title="Прованс – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Прованс" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatus_Provinciae" title="Comitatus Provinciae – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Comitatus Provinciae" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provansa" title="Provansa – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Provansa" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provansas" title="Provansas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Provansas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provensa" title="Provensa – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Provensa" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0" title="Прованса – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Прованса" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="პროვანსი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="პროვანსი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence_(Frankrijk)" title="Provence (Frankrijk) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Provence (Frankrijk)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9" title="プロヴァンス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="プロヴァンス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven%C3%A7a" title="Provença – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Provença" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prowansja" title="Prowansja – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Prowansja" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven%C3%A7a" title="Provença – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Provença" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven%C8%9Ba" title="Provența – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Provența" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puruwinsa" title="Puruwinsa – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Puruwinsa" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81" title="Прованс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Прованс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86" title="Прованц – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Прованц" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenca" title="Provenca – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Provenca" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruvenza" title="Pruvenza – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Pruvenza" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provensalsko" title="Provensalsko – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Provensalsko" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provansa" title="Provansa – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Provansa" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prowansyjo" title="Prowansyjo – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Prowansyjo" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0" title="Прованса – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Прованса" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provansa" title="Provansa – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Provansa" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence" title="Provence – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Provence" data-language-autonym="Svenska" 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href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">Province</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Historical province in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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province</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="View across lavender field to Mont Ventoux"><img alt="View across lavender field to Mont Ventoux" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg/250px-Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg/375px-Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg/500px-Lavender_field_and_Mont_Ventoux.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2044" data-file-height="1363" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">View across lavender field to <a href="/wiki/Mont_Ventoux" title="Mont Ventoux">Mont Ventoux</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Provence.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Provence"><img alt="Flag of Provence" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Flag_of_Provence.svg/100px-Flag_of_Provence.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Flag_of_Provence.svg/150px-Flag_of_Provence.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Flag_of_Provence.svg/200px-Flag_of_Provence.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1125" data-file-height="750" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Flag</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Provence"><img alt="Coat of arms of Provence" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg/86px-Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="86" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg/129px-Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg/172px-Royal_arms_of_Aragon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="910" data-file-height="1060" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Coat of arms</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Provence_in_France_(1789_borders_over_modern_Provence).png" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of the County of Provence in red over modern borders of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in pink in modern France."><img alt="Location of the County of Provence in red over modern borders of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in pink in modern France." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Provence_in_France_%281789_borders_over_modern_Provence%29.png/250px-Provence_in_France_%281789_borders_over_modern_Provence%29.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Provence_in_France_%281789_borders_over_modern_Provence%29.png/375px-Provence_in_France_%281789_borders_over_modern_Provence%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Provence_in_France_%281789_borders_over_modern_Provence%29.png/500px-Provence_in_France_%281789_borders_over_modern_Provence%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1845" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location of the County of Provence in red over modern borders of <a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a> in pink in modern France.</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_France" title="Regions of France">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Flag_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur.svg/23px-Flag_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Flag_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur.svg/35px-Flag_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Flag_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur.svg/45px-Flag_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1125" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Marseille.svg/23px-Flag_of_Marseille.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Marseille.svg/35px-Flag_of_Marseille.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Marseille.svg/45px-Flag_of_Marseille.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Provençal, Provençale</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg/280px-Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="280" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg/420px-Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg/560px-Provence_topographic_map-fr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="484" data-file-height="440" /></a><figcaption>A map of the <a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a> administrative region</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PACA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/PACA.jpg/280px-PACA.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/PACA.jpg/420px-PACA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/PACA.jpg/560px-PACA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="903" data-file-height="756" /></a><figcaption>The historical province of Provence (orange) within the contemporary region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeastern France</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Provence</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, which stretches from the left bank of the lower <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Rhône">Rhône</a> to the west to the <a href="/wiki/France%E2%80%93Italy_border" title="France–Italy border">Italian border</a> to the east; it is bordered by the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a> to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_France" title="Regions of France">region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a> and includes the <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">departments</a> of <a href="/wiki/Var_(department)" title="Var (department)">Var</a>, Bouches-du-Rhône, <a href="/wiki/Alpes-de-Haute-Provence" title="Alpes-de-Haute-Provence">Alpes-de-Haute-Provence</a>, as well as parts of <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse" title="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Petit_Robert_1988_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Petit_Robert_1988-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest city of the region and its modern-day capital is <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Romans</a> made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it <i>Provincia Romana</i>, which evolved into the present name. Until 1481 it was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Provence" title="List of rulers of Provence">counts of Provence</a> from their capital in <a href="/wiki/Aix-en-Provence" title="Aix-en-Provence">Aix-en-Provence</a>, then became a province of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs" title="List of French monarchs">kings of France</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Petit_Robert_1988_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Petit_Robert_1988-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While it has been part of France for more than 500 years, it still retains a distinct cultural and linguistic identity, particularly in the interior of the region.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The region got its name in Roman times, when it was known as <i>Provincia Romana</i>, simply "the Roman province". This name eventually was shortened to Provincia (the province),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as the language evolved from Latin to <a href="/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect" title="Provençal dialect">Provençal</a>, so did the pronunciation and spelling. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Provence" title="History of Provence">History of Provence</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistoric_Provence">Prehistoric Provence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prehistoric Provence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_calanque_de_Morgiou_(Marseille)_(14229035225).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/La_calanque_de_Morgiou_%28Marseille%29_%2814229035225%29.jpg/220px-La_calanque_de_Morgiou_%28Marseille%29_%2814229035225%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/La_calanque_de_Morgiou_%28Marseille%29_%2814229035225%29.jpg/330px-La_calanque_de_Morgiou_%28Marseille%29_%2814229035225%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/La_calanque_de_Morgiou_%28Marseille%29_%2814229035225%29.jpg/440px-La_calanque_de_Morgiou_%28Marseille%29_%2814229035225%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1781" data-file-height="1183" /></a><figcaption>The entrance to the <a href="/wiki/Cosquer_Cave" title="Cosquer Cave">Cosquer Cave</a>, decorated with paintings of <a href="/wiki/Auk" title="Auk">auks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bison" title="Bison">bison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pinniped" title="Pinniped">seals</a> and outlines of hands dating to 27,000 to 19,000 BC, is located 37 metres under the surface of the <a href="/wiki/Calanque_de_Morgiou" title="Calanque de Morgiou">Calanque de Morgiou</a> in <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The coast of Provence has some of the earliest known sites of human habitation in Europe. Primitive stone tools dating back 1 to 1.05 million years BC have been found in the <a href="/wiki/Grotte_du_Vallonnet" title="Grotte du Vallonnet">Grotte du Vallonnet</a> near <a href="/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin" title="Roquebrune-Cap-Martin">Roquebrune-Cap-Martin</a>, between <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Menton" title="Menton">Menton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More sophisticated tools, worked on both sides of the stone and dating to 600,000 BC, were found in the Cave of Escale at <a href="/wiki/Saint-Est%C3%A8ve-Janson" title="Saint-Estève-Janson">Saint-Estève-Janson</a>; tools from 400,000 BC and some of the first fireplaces in Europe were found at <a href="/wiki/Terra_Amata_(archaeological_site)" title="Terra Amata (archaeological site)">Terra Amata</a> in Nice.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tools dating to the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Paleolithic" title="Middle Paleolithic">Middle Paleolithic</a> (300,000 BC) and <a href="/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic" title="Upper Paleolithic">Upper Paleolithic</a> (30,000–10,000 BC) were discovered in the Observatory Cave, in the <a href="/wiki/Jardin_Exotique_de_Monaco" title="Jardin Exotique de Monaco">Jardin Exotique</a> of <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Paleolithic period in Provence saw great changes in the climate. Two ice ages came and went, and the sea level changed dramatically. At the beginning of the Paleolithic, the sea level in western Provence was 150 meters higher than today. By the end of the Paleolithic, it had dropped to 100 to 150 metres below the sea level today. The cave dwellings of the early inhabitants of Provence were regularly flooded by the rising sea or left far from the sea and swept away by erosion.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG/220px-Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG/330px-Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG/440px-Celtic_Stone_in_Draguignan_-_Provence_-_France.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>A Bronze Age dolmen (2500 to 900 BC) near <a href="/wiki/Draguignan" title="Draguignan">Draguignan</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The changes in the sea level led to one of the most remarkable discoveries of signs of early man in Provence. In 1985, a diver named Henri Cosquer discovered the mouth of a submarine cave 37 metres below the surface of the <a href="/wiki/Calanque_de_Morgiou" title="Calanque de Morgiou">Calanque de Morgiou</a> near Marseille. The entrance led to a cave above sea level. Inside, the walls of the <a href="/wiki/Cosquer_Cave" title="Cosquer Cave">Cosquer Cave</a> are decorated with drawings of bison, seals, auks, horses and outlines of human hands, dating to between 27,000 and 19,000 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The end of the Paleolithic and beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> period saw the sea settle at its present level, a warming of the climate and the retreat of the forests. The disappearance of the forests and the deer and other easily hunted game meant that the inhabitants of Provence had to survive on <a href="/wiki/Rabbit" title="Rabbit">rabbits</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snail" title="Snail">snails</a> and wild sheep. In about 6000 BC, the Castelnovian people, living around <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-les-Martigues" title="Châteauneuf-les-Martigues">Châteauneuf-les-Martigues</a>, were among the first people in Europe to domesticate wild sheep, and to cease moving constantly from place to place. Once they settled in one place they were able to develop new industries. Inspired by pottery from the eastern Mediterranean, in about 6000 BC they created the first pottery made in France.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 6000 BC, a wave of new settlers from the east, the <a href="/wiki/Chass%C3%A9en_culture" title="Chasséen culture">Chasséens</a>, arrived in Provence. They were farmers and warriors, and gradually displaced the earlier pastoral people from their lands. They were followed about 2500 BC by another wave of people, also farmers, known as the Courronniens, who arrived by sea and settled along the coast of what is now the Bouches-du-Rhône.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Traces of these early civilisations can be found in many parts of Provence. A Neolithic site dating to about 6,000 BC was discovered in Marseille near the <a href="/wiki/Gare_de_Marseille_Saint-Charles" class="mw-redirect" title="Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles">Saint-Charles railway station</a>. and a <a href="/wiki/Dolmen" title="Dolmen">dolmen</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> (2500–900 BC) can be found near <a href="/wiki/Draguignan" title="Draguignan">Draguignan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ligures_and_Celts_in_Provence">Ligures and Celts in Provence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ligures and Celts in Provence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Between the 10th and 4th century BC, the <a href="/wiki/Ligures" title="Ligures">Ligures</a> were found in Provence from <a href="/wiki/Marseilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Marseilles">Massilia</a> as far as modern <a href="/wiki/Liguria" title="Liguria">Liguria</a>. They were of uncertain origin; they may have been the descendants of the indigenous Neolithic peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-J.R._Palanque,_Pg._33_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-J.R._Palanque,_Pg._33-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, the Ligurians, living in proximity to numerous Celtic mountain tribes, were a different people (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἑτεροεθνεῖς</span></span>), but "were similar to the Celts in their modes of life".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They did not have their own alphabet, but their language remains in place names in Provence ending in the suffixes -<i>asc</i>, -<i>osc</i>, -<i>inc</i>, -<i>ates</i>, and -<i>auni</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-J.R._Palanque,_Pg._33_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-J.R._Palanque,_Pg._33-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ancient geographer <a href="/wiki/Posidonius" title="Posidonius">Posidonius</a> wrote of them: "Their country is savage and dry. The soil is so rocky that you cannot plant anything without striking stones. The men compensate for the lack of wheat by hunting... They climb the mountains like goats."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were also warlike; they invaded Italy and went as far as Rome in the 4th century BC, and they later aided the passage of <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a>, on his way to attack Rome (218 BC). Traces of the Ligures remain today in the <a href="/wiki/Dolmens" class="mw-redirect" title="Dolmens">dolmens</a> and other megaliths found in eastern Provence, in the primitive stone shelters called 'Bories' found in the <a href="/wiki/Luberon" title="Luberon">Luberon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comtat" title="Comtat">Comtat</a>, and in the rock carvings in the <a href="/wiki/Vall%C3%A9e_des_Merveilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Vallée des Merveilles">Valley of Marvels</a> near <a href="/wiki/Mont_B%C3%A9go" title="Mont Bégo">Mont Bégo</a> in the Alpes-Maritimes, at an altitude of 2,000 meters.<sup id="cite_ref-R._Palanque,_Pg._34_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Palanque,_Pg._34-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between the 8th and 5th centuries BC, tribes of Celtic peoples, probably coming from Central Europe, also began moving into Provence. They had weapons made of iron, which allowed them to easily defeat the local tribes, who were still armed with bronze weapons. One tribe, called the <a href="/wiki/Segobriga" title="Segobriga">Segobriga</a>, settled near modern-day Marseille. The Caturiges, Tricastins, and Cavares settled to the west of the <a href="/wiki/Durance" title="Durance">Durance</a> river.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a> and Ligurians spread throughout the area and the Celto-Ligures eventually shared the territory of Provence, each tribe in its own alpine valley or settlement along a river, each with its own king and dynasty. They built hilltop forts and settlements, later given the Latin name <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Oppidum" title="Oppidum">oppidum</a></i></span>. Today the traces of 165 <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">oppida</i></span> are found in the Var, and as many as 285 in the Alpes-Maritimes.<sup id="cite_ref-R._Palanque,_Pg._34_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Palanque,_Pg._34-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They worshipped various aspects of nature, establishing sacred woods at Sainte-Baume and Gemenos, and healing springs at Glanum and Vernègues. Later, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the different tribes formed confederations; the Voconces in the area from the <a href="/wiki/Is%C3%A8re" title="Isère">Isère</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse" title="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</a>; the Cavares in the Comtat; and the Salyens, from the <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Rhône">Rhône</a> river to the Var. The tribes began to trade their local products, iron, silver, alabaster, marble, gold, resin, wax, honey and cheese; with their neighbours, first by trading routes along the Rhône river, and later <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscan</a> traders visited the coast. Etruscan <a href="/wiki/Amphorae" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphorae">amphorae</a> from the 7th and 6th centuries BC have been found in Marseille, Cassis, and in hilltop <i>oppida</i> in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-R._Palanque,_Pg._34_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Palanque,_Pg._34-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greeks_in_Provence">Greeks in Provence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Greeks in Provence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Greeks_in_pre-Roman_Gaul" title="Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul">Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG/220px-Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG/330px-Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG/440px-Marseille_Ancient_Harbor.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Remains of the ancient harbour of <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Massalia</a>, near the Old Port of Marseille</figcaption></figure> <p>Traders from the island of Rhodes were visiting the coast of Provence in the 7th century BC. Rhodes pottery from that century has been found in Marseille, near <a href="/wiki/Martigues" title="Martigues">Martigues</a> and Istres, and at Mont Garou and Evenos near <a href="/wiki/Toulon" title="Toulon">Toulon</a>. The traders from Rhodes gave their names to the ancient town of Rhodanousia (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">'Ροδανουσίαν</span>) (now <a href="/wiki/Trinquetaille" title="Trinquetaille">Trinquetaille</a>, across the Rhône river from Arles), and to the main river of Provence, the Rhodanos, today known as the Rhône.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first permanent Greek settlement was <a href="/wiki/Massalia" title="Massalia">Massalia</a>, established at modern-day Marseille in about 600 BC by colonists coming from <a href="/wiki/Phocaea" title="Phocaea">Phocaea</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Fo%C3%A7a" title="Foça">Foça</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean</a> coast of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a>). A second wave of colonists arrived in about 540 BC, when Phocaea was destroyed by the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian Empire">Persians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-R._Palanque,_pg._41_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Palanque,_pg._41-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Massalia became one of the major trading ports of the ancient world. At its height, in the 4th century BC, it had a population of about 6,000 inhabitants, living on about fifty hectares surrounded by a wall. It was governed as an aristocratic republic, by an assembly of the 600 wealthiest citizens. It had a large temple of the cult of <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> of Delphi on a hilltop overlooking the port, and a temple of the cult of <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> of Ephesus at the other end of the city. The Drachma coins minted in Massalia were found in all parts of Ligurian-Celtic Gaul. Traders from Massalia ventured inland deep into France on the Rivers <a href="/wiki/Durance" title="Durance">Durance</a> and Rhône, and established overland trade routes deep into Gaul, and to Switzerland and Burgundy, and as far north as the Baltic Sea. They exported their own products; local wine, salted pork and fish, aromatic and medicinal plants, coral and cork.<sup id="cite_ref-R._Palanque,_pg._41_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Palanque,_pg._41-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Massalians also established a series of small colonies and trading posts along the coast; which later became towns; they founded <i>Citharista</i> (<a href="/wiki/La_Ciotat" title="La Ciotat">La Ciotat</a>); <i>Tauroeis</i> (Le Brusc); <i>Olbia</i> (near <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a>); <i>Pergantion</i> (Breganson); <i>Caccabaria</i> (<a href="/wiki/Cavalaire" class="mw-redirect" title="Cavalaire">Cavalaire</a>); <i>Athenopolis</i> (<a href="/wiki/Saint-Tropez" title="Saint-Tropez">Saint-Tropez</a>); <i>Antipolis</i> (<a href="/wiki/Antibes" title="Antibes">Antibes</a>); <i>Nikaia</i> (<a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a>), and <i>Monoicos</i> (<a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a>). They established inland towns at <i>Glanum</i> (<a href="/wiki/Saint-R%C3%A9my-de-Provence" title="Saint-Rémy-de-Provence">Saint-Remy</a>) and <i>Mastrabala</i> (<a href="/wiki/Saint-Blaise,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Saint-Blaise, Alpes-Maritimes">Saint-Blaise</a>). </p><p>The most famous citizen of Massalia was the mathematician, astronomer and navigator <a href="/wiki/Pytheas" title="Pytheas">Pytheas</a>. Pytheas made mathematical instruments which allowed him to establish almost exactly the latitude of Marseille, and he was the first scientist to observe that the tides were connected with the phases of the moon. Between 330 and 320 BC he organised an expedition by ship into the Atlantic and as far north as England, and to visit <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a>, Shetland, and Norway. He was the first scientist to describe drift ice and the midnight sun. Though he hoped to establish a sea trading route for tin from <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>, his trip was not a commercial success, and it was not repeated. The Massalians found it cheaper and simpler to trade with Northern Europe over land routes.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_Provence_(2nd_century_BC_to_5th_century_AD)"><span id="Roman_Provence_.282nd_century_BC_to_5th_century_AD.29"></span>Roman Provence (2nd century BC to 5th century AD)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Roman Provence (2nd century BC to 5th century AD)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trarch_Orange.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Trarch_Orange.jpg/220px-Trarch_Orange.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Trarch_Orange.jpg/330px-Trarch_Orange.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Trarch_Orange.jpg/440px-Trarch_Orange.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2944" data-file-height="2258" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_of_Orange" title="Triumphal Arch of Orange">Triumphal Arch of Orange</a>, first century AD</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 2nd century BC the people of Massalia appealed to Rome for help against the Ligures. Roman legions entered Provence three times; first in 181 BC the Romans suppressed Ligurian uprisings near Genoa; in 154 BC the Roman Consul Optimus defeated the <a href="/wiki/Oxybii" title="Oxybii">Oxybii</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Deciates" title="Deciates">Deciates</a>, who were attacking Antibes; and in 125 BC, the Romans put down an uprising of a confederation of Celtic tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After this battle, the Romans decided to establish permanent settlements in Provence. In 122 BC, next to the Celtic town of Entremont, the Romans built a new town, <i>Aquae Sextiae</i>, later called <a href="/wiki/Aix-en-Provence" title="Aix-en-Provence">Aix-en-Provence</a>. In 118 BC they founded <i>Narbo</i> (<a href="/wiki/Narbonne" title="Narbonne">Narbonne</a>). </p><p>The Roman general <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Gaius Marius</a> crushed the last serious resistance in 102 BC by defeating the <a href="/wiki/Cimbri" title="Cimbri">Cimbri</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Teutons" title="Teutons">Teutons</a>. He then began building roads to facilitate troop movements and commerce between Rome, Spain and Northern Europe; one from the coast inland to <a href="/wiki/Apt,_Vaucluse" title="Apt, Vaucluse">Apt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tarascon" title="Tarascon">Tarascon</a>, and the other along the coast from Italy to Spain, passing through <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus" title="Fréjus">Fréjus</a> and Aix-en-Provence. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg/220px-FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg/330px-FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg/440px-FranceArlesArenes_07-2013.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3801" data-file-height="2325" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Arles_Amphitheatre" title="Arles Amphitheatre">Roman arena</a> at <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a> (2nd century AD)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 49 BC, Massalia had the misfortune to choose the wrong side in the power struggle between <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>. Pompey was defeated, and Massalia lost its territories and political influence. Roman veterans, in the meantime, populated two new towns, Arles and Fréjus, at the sites of older Greek settlements. </p><p>In 8 BC the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> built a triumphal monument at <a href="/wiki/La_Turbie" title="La Turbie">La Turbie</a> to commemorate the pacification of the region, and he began to Romanize Provence politically and culturally. Roman engineers and architects built monuments, theatres, baths, villas, fora, arenas and <a href="/wiki/Roman_aqueduct" title="Roman aqueduct">aqueducts</a>, many of which still exist. (See <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Provence" title="Architecture of Provence">Architecture of Provence</a>.) Roman towns were built at <a href="/wiki/Cavaillon" title="Cavaillon">Cavaillon</a>; <a href="/wiki/Orange,_Vaucluse" title="Orange, Vaucluse">Orange</a>; <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a>; <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus" title="Fréjus">Fréjus</a>; <a href="/wiki/Glanum" title="Glanum">Glanum</a> (outside <a href="/wiki/Saint-R%C3%A9my-de-Provence" title="Saint-Rémy-de-Provence">Saint-Rémy-de-Provence</a>); <a href="/wiki/Carpentras" title="Carpentras">Carpentras</a>; <a href="/wiki/Vaison-la-Romaine" title="Vaison-la-Romaine">Vaison-la-Romaine</a>; <a href="/wiki/N%C3%AEmes" title="Nîmes">Nîmes</a>; <a href="/wiki/Vern%C3%A8gues" title="Vernègues">Vernègues</a>; <a href="/wiki/Saint-Chamas" title="Saint-Chamas">Saint-Chamas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cimiez" title="Cimiez">Cimiez</a> (above Nice). The Roman province, which was called <a href="/wiki/Gallia_Narbonensis" title="Gallia Narbonensis">Gallia Narbonensis</a>, for its capital, Narbo (modern Narbonne), extended from Italy to Spain, from the <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Pax_Romana" title="Pax Romana">Pax Romana</a> in Provence lasted until the middle of the 3rd century. <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a> tribes invaded Provence in 257 and 275. At the beginning the 4th century, the court of Roman Emperor <a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine</a> (ca. 272–337) was forced to take refuge in Arles. By the end of the 5th century, Roman power in Provence had vanished, and an age of invasions, wars, and chaos began. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arrival_of_Christianity_(3rd–6th_centuries)"><span id="Arrival_of_Christianity_.283rd.E2.80.936th_centuries.29"></span>Arrival of Christianity (3rd–6th centuries)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Arrival of Christianity (3rd–6th centuries)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg/170px-Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg/255px-Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg/340px-Frejus_Cathedral_Baptistery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Baptistery" title="Baptistery">baptistery</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus_Cathedral" title="Fréjus Cathedral">Fréjus Cathedral</a> (5th century) is still in use</figcaption></figure> <p>There are many legends about the earliest Christians in Provence, but they are difficult to verify. It is documented that there were organised churches and bishops in the Roman towns of Provence as early as the 3rd and 4th centuries; in <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a> in 254; Marseille in 314; <a href="/wiki/Orange,_Vaucluse" title="Orange, Vaucluse">Orange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaison" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaison">Vaison</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apt,_Vaucluse" title="Apt, Vaucluse">Apt</a> in 314; <a href="/wiki/Cavaillon" title="Cavaillon">Cavaillon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digne" class="mw-redirect" title="Digne">Digne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Embrun,_Hautes-Alpes" title="Embrun, Hautes-Alpes">Embrun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gap,_Hautes-Alpes" title="Gap, Hautes-Alpes">Gap</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus" title="Fréjus">Fréjus</a> at the end of the 4th century; <a href="/wiki/Aix-en-Provence" title="Aix-en-Provence">Aix-en-Provence</a> in 408; <a href="/wiki/Carpentras" title="Carpentras">Carpentras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Avignon" title="Avignon">Avignon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Riez" title="Riez">Riez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cimiez" title="Cimiez">Cimiez</a> (today part of <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Vence" title="Vence">Vence</a> in 439; <a href="/wiki/Antibes" title="Antibes">Antibes</a> in 442; <a href="/wiki/Toulon" title="Toulon">Toulon</a> in 451; <a href="/wiki/Senez" title="Senez">Senez</a> in 406, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Paul-Trois-Ch%C3%A2teaux" title="Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux">Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux</a> in 517; and <a href="/wiki/Gland%C3%A8ves" class="mw-redirect" title="Glandèves">Glandèves</a> in 541.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The oldest Christian structure still surviving in Provence is the baptistery of the <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus_Cathedral" title="Fréjus Cathedral">Fréjus Cathedral</a>, dating from the 5th century. At about the same time, the first two monasteries in Provence were founded: <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9rins_Abbey" title="Lérins Abbey">Lérins Abbey</a>, on the island of <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Saint-Honorat" title="Île Saint-Honorat">Saint-Honorat</a> near Cannes, and <a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_St_Victor,_Marseille" title="Abbey of St Victor, Marseille">Abbey of St Victor</a> in Marseille. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germanic_invasions,_Merovingians_and_Carolingians_(5th–9th_centuries)"><span id="Germanic_invasions.2C_Merovingians_and_Carolingians_.285th.E2.80.939th_centuries.29"></span>Germanic invasions, Merovingians and Carolingians (5th–9th centuries)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Germanic invasions, Merovingians and Carolingians (5th–9th centuries)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG/220px-King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG/330px-King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG/440px-King_Boson_of_Provence.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Boso_of_Provence" title="Boso of Provence">King Boson</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_protomartyrs" title="List of protomartyrs">San Stephen</a> (fragment of fresco at <a href="/wiki/Charlieu_Abbey" title="Charlieu Abbey">Charlieu Abbey</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>Beginning in the second half of the 5th century, as Roman power waned, successive waves of Germanic tribes entered Provence: first the <a href="/wiki/Visigoths" title="Visigoths">Visigoths</a> (480), then the <a href="/wiki/Ostrogoths" title="Ostrogoths">Ostrogoths</a>, then the <a href="/wiki/Burgundians" title="Burgundians">Burgundians</a>, finally, the <a href="/wiki/Franks" title="Franks">Franks</a> in the 6th century. <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> invaders and <a href="/wiki/Berber_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Berber people">Berber</a> pirates came from North Africa to the Coast of Provence in the early 7th century. </p><p>During the late 7th and the early 8th centuries, Provence was formally subject to the Frankish kings of the <a href="/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty" title="Merovingian dynasty">Merovingian dynasty</a>, but it was in fact ruled by its own regional nobility of Gallo-Roman stock, which ruled themselves according to Roman, not Frankish, law. Actually, the region enjoyed more prestige than the northern Franks had, but the local aristocracy feared <a href="/wiki/Charles_Martel" title="Charles Martel">Charles Martel</a>'s expansionist ambitions.<sup id="cite_ref-rogercollins_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogercollins-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 737, Charles Martel headed down the Rhône Valley after subduing Burgundy. He attacked <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Avignon" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Avignon">Avignon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a>, garrisoned by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_invasion_of_Gaul" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic invasion of Gaul">Umayyads</a>, and came back in 739 to capture for a second time Avignon and chase the duke <a href="/wiki/Maurontus" title="Maurontus">Maurontus</a> to his stronghold of Marseille.<sup id="cite_ref-rogercollins_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogercollins-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city was brought to heel and the duke had to flee to an island. The region was thereafter under the rule of <a href="/wiki/Carolingian" class="mw-redirect" title="Carolingian">Carolingian</a> kings, descended from Charles Martel, and then was part of the empire of <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a> (742–814). </p><p>In 879, after the death of the Carolingian ruler <a href="/wiki/Charles_the_Bald" title="Charles the Bald">Charles the Bald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boso_of_Provence" title="Boso of Provence">Boso of Provence</a> (also known as Boson), his brother-in-law, broke away from the Carolingian kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Louis_the_Younger" title="Louis the Younger">Louis III</a> and was elected the first ruler of an independent state of Provence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fraxinet,_the_Counts_of_Provence_(9th–13th_centuries)"><span id="Fraxinet.2C_the_Counts_of_Provence_.289th.E2.80.9313th_centuries.29"></span>Fraxinet, the Counts of Provence (9th–13th centuries)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Fraxinet, the Counts of Provence (9th–13th centuries)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg/170px-Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg/255px-Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg/340px-Ramon_Berenguer_III.jpg 2x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="492" /></a><figcaption>The Catalan <a href="/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_III,_Count_of_Barcelona" title="Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona">Ramon Berenguer I</a>, Count of Provence, in the Castle in Fos, painted by <a href="/wiki/Mari%C3%A0_Fortuny" class="mw-redirect" title="Marià Fortuny">Marià Fortuny</a> (<a href="/wiki/Reial_Acad%C3%A8mia_Catalana_de_Belles_Arts_de_Sant_Jordi" title="Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi">Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi</a>, on deposit at the Palace of the <a href="/wiki/Generalitat_of_Catalonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Generalitat of Catalonia">Generalitat of Catalonia</a>, Barcelona)</figcaption></figure> <p>Three different dynasties of counts ruled Provence during the Middle Ages, and Provence became a prize in the complex rivalries between the <a href="/wiki/Catalan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan people">Catalan</a> rulers of <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Burgundy" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Burgundy">kings of Burgundy</a>, the German rulers of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Valois-Anjou" title="House of Valois-Anjou">Angevin</a> kings of France.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (March 2010)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blason_d%27Aragon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Blason_d%27Aragon.svg/170px-Blason_d%27Aragon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Blason_d%27Aragon.svg/255px-Blason_d%27Aragon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Blason_d%27Aragon.svg/340px-Blason_d%27Aragon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a><figcaption>The coat of arms of <a href="/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_III,_Count_of_Barcelona" title="Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona">Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona</a>, and his descendants, who as counts of Provence ruled Provence from 1112 until 1246</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg/170px-Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg/255px-Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg/340px-Blason_province_fr_Provence.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a><figcaption>Coat of arms of the counts of Provence of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Valois-Anjou" title="House of Valois-Anjou">House of Valois-Anjou</a>, who ruled Provence from 1246 until it became part of France in 1486</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bosonids" title="Bosonids">Bosonids</a> (879–1112) were the descendants of the first king of Provence, Boson. His son, <a href="/wiki/Louis_the_Blind" title="Louis the Blind">Louis the Blind</a> (890–928), lost his sight trying to win the throne of Italy, after which his cousin, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Italy" title="Hugh of Italy">Hugh of Italy</a> (died 947), became the duke of Provence and the <a href="/wiki/Count_of_Vienne" title="Count of Vienne">count of Vienne</a>. Hugh moved the capital of Provence from Vienne to <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a> and made Provence a <a href="/wiki/Fief" title="Fief">fief</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rudolph_II_of_Burgundy" title="Rudolph II of Burgundy">Rudolph II of Burgundy</a>. </p><p>In the 9th century, <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> pirates (called <a href="/wiki/Saracens" class="mw-redirect" title="Saracens">Saracens</a> by the French) and then the <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> invaded Provence. The Normans pillaged the region and then left, but the Saracens built castles and began raiding towns and holding local residents for ransom. The conquering Arabs established the emirate of <a href="/wiki/Fraxinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraxinet">Fraxinet</a> in 887. Early in 973, the Saracens captured <a href="/wiki/Majolus_of_Cluny" class="mw-redirect" title="Majolus of Cluny">Maieul</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Abbot" title="Abbot">abbot</a> of the monastery at <a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_Cluny" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbey of Cluny">Cluny</a>, and held him for ransom. The ransom was paid and the abbot was released, but the people of Provence, led by <a href="/wiki/William_I_of_Provence" title="William I of Provence">Count William I</a>, rose up and defeated the Saracens near their most powerful fortress (<a href="/wiki/La_Garde-Freinet" title="La Garde-Freinet">La Garde-Freinet</a>) at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tourtour" title="Battle of Tourtour">Battle of Tourtour</a>. The Saracens who were not killed in the battle were baptised and enslaved, and the remaining Saracens in Provence fled the region. Meanwhile, dynastic quarrels continued. A war between <a href="/wiki/Rudolph_III_of_Burgundy" title="Rudolph III of Burgundy">Rudolph III of Burgundy</a> and his rival, German emperor <a href="/wiki/Conrad_the_Salic" class="mw-redirect" title="Conrad the Salic">Conrad the Salic</a> led in 1032 to Provence becoming a <a href="/wiki/Fiefdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiefdom">fiefdom</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>, which it remained until 1246. </p><p>In 1112, the last descendant of Boson, <a href="/wiki/Douce_I,_Countess_of_Provence" title="Douce I, Countess of Provence">Douce I, Countess of Provence</a>, married the Catalan <a href="/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_III,_Count_of_Barcelona" title="Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona">Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona</a>, who as a result became Raymond Berenguer I, Count of Provence. He ruled Provence from 1112 until 1131, and his descendants, the Catalan counts, ruled in Provence until 1246. In 1125, Provence was divided; the part of Provence north and west of the <a href="/wiki/Durance" title="Durance">Durance</a> river went to the <a href="/wiki/Count_of_Toulouse" title="Count of Toulouse">Count of Toulouse</a>, while the lands between the Durance and the Mediterranean, and from the Rhône river to the Alps, belonged to the counts of Provence. The capital of Provence was moved from Arles to <a href="/wiki/Aix-en-Provence" title="Aix-en-Provence">Aix-en-Provence</a>, and later to <a href="/wiki/Brignoles" title="Brignoles">Brignoles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the Catalan counts, the 12th century saw the construction of important cathedrals and abbeys in Provence, in a harmonious new style, the <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a>, which united the <a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallo-Roman">Gallo-Roman</a> style of the Rhône Valley with the <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombard</a> style of the Alps. <a href="/wiki/Aix_Cathedral" title="Aix Cathedral">Aix Cathedral</a> was built on the site of the old Roman forum, and then rebuilt in the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic</a> style in the 13th and 14th centuries. The <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St._Trophime" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of St. Trophime">Church of St. Trophime</a> in Arles was a landmark of Romanesque architecture, built between the 12th and the 15th centuries. A vast fortress-like monastery, <a href="/wiki/Montmajour_Abbey" title="Montmajour Abbey">Montmajour Abbey</a>, was built on an island just north of Arles and became a major destination for medieval pilgrims. </p><p>In the 12th century, three <a href="/wiki/Cistercian" class="mw-redirect" title="Cistercian">Cistercian</a> monasteries were built in remote parts of Provence, far from the political intrigues of the cities. <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9nanque_Abbey" title="Sénanque Abbey">Sénanque Abbey</a> was the first, established in the <a href="/wiki/Luberon" title="Luberon">Luberon</a> between 1148 and 1178. <a href="/wiki/Thoronet_Abbey" title="Thoronet Abbey">Thoronet Abbey</a> was founded in a remote valley near <a href="/wiki/Draguignan" title="Draguignan">Draguignan</a> in 1160. <a href="/wiki/Silvacane_Abbey" title="Silvacane Abbey">Silvacane Abbey</a>, on the Durance river at <a href="/wiki/La_Roque-d%27Anth%C3%A9ron" title="La Roque-d'Anthéron">La Roque-d'Anthéron</a>, was founded in 1175. </p><p>In the 13th century, the French kings started to use marriage to extend their influence into the south of France. One son of King <a href="/wiki/Louis_VIII_of_France" title="Louis VIII of France">Louis VIII</a> "the Lion", <a href="/wiki/Alfonso,_Count_of_Poitou" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfonso, Count of Poitou">Alphonse, Count of Poitou</a>, married the heiress of the Count of Toulouse, <a href="/wiki/Joan,_Countess_of_Toulouse" title="Joan, Countess of Toulouse">Joan</a>. Another, <a href="/wiki/Louis_IX" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis IX">Louis IX</a> "the Saint" of France or Saint Louis (1214–1270), married <a href="/wiki/Marguerite_of_Provence" class="mw-redirect" title="Marguerite of Provence">Marguerite of Provence</a>. Then, in 1246, <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles I of Naples">Charles, Count of Anjou</a>, the youngest son of Louis VIII, married the heiress of Provence, <a href="/wiki/Beatrice_of_Provence" title="Beatrice of Provence">Beatrice</a>. Provence's fortunes became tied to the <a href="/wiki/Capetian_House_of_Anjou" title="Capetian House of Anjou">Angevin Dynasty</a> and the Kingdom of Naples.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_popes_in_Avignon_(14th_century)"><span id="The_popes_in_Avignon_.2814th_century.29"></span>The popes in Avignon (14th century)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The popes in Avignon (14th century)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Avignon_papacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Avignon papacy">Avignon papacy</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg/220px-Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg/330px-Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg/440px-Fa%C3%A7ade_du_Palais_des_Papes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="969" data-file-height="730" /></a><figcaption>The façade of the <a href="/wiki/Palais_des_Papes" title="Palais des Papes">Palais des Papes</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1309, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Clement_V" title="Pope Clement V">Pope Clement V</a>, who was originally from Bordeaux, moved the <a href="/wiki/Papal_Curia" class="mw-redirect" title="Papal Curia">Papal Curia</a> to Avignon, a period known as the <a href="/wiki/Avignon_Papacy" title="Avignon Papacy">Avignon Papacy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1309 until 1377, seven popes reigned in Avignon before the <a href="/wiki/Western_Schism" title="Western Schism">Schism</a> between the Roman and Avignon churches, which led to the creation of rival popes in both places. After that, three <a href="/wiki/Antipope" title="Antipope">antipopes</a> reigned in Avignon until 1423, when the papacy finally returned to Rome. Between 1334 and 1363 the old and new Papal Palaces of Avignon were built by Popes <a href="/wiki/Benedict_XII" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedict XII">Benedict XII</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clement_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="Clement VI">Clement VI</a> respectively; together the <a href="/wiki/Palais_des_Papes" title="Palais des Papes">Palais des Papes</a> was the largest Gothic palace in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 14th century was a terrible time in Provence, and all of Europe: the population of Provence had been about 400,000 people; the <a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> (1348–1350) killed fifteen thousand people in Arles, half the population of the city, and greatly reduced the population of the whole region. The defeat of the French Army during the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a> forced the cities of Provence to build walls and towers to defend themselves against armies of former soldiers who ravaged the countryside. </p><p>The Angevin rulers of Provence also had a difficult time. An assembly of nobles, religious leaders, and town leaders of Provence was organised to resist the authority of Queen <a href="/wiki/Joan_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="Joan I of Naples">Joan I of Naples</a> (1343–1382). She was murdered in 1382 by her cousin and heir, <a href="/wiki/Charles_III_of_Naples" title="Charles III of Naples">Charles of Durazzo</a>, who started a new war, leading to the separation of <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puget-Th%C3%A9niers" title="Puget-Théniers">Puget-Théniers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barcelonnette" title="Barcelonnette">Barcelonnette</a> from Provence in 1388, and their attachment to the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Savoy" title="County of Savoy">County of Savoy</a>. From 1388 up to 1526, the area acquired by the Savoy was known as <i>Terres Neuves de Provence</i>; after 1526 it officially took on the name <a href="/wiki/County_of_Nice" title="County of Nice">County of Nice</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Good_King_René,_the_last_ruler_of_Provence"><span id="Good_King_Ren.C3.A9.2C_the_last_ruler_of_Provence"></span>Good King René, the last ruler of Provence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Good King René, the last ruler of Provence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 15th century saw a series of wars between the kings of <a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon" title="Crown of Aragon">Aragon</a> and the counts of Provence. In 1423 the army of <a href="/wiki/Alfonso_V_of_Aragon" title="Alfonso V of Aragon">Alphonse of Aragon</a> captured Marseille, and in 1443 they captured Naples, and forced its ruler, King <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="René I of Naples">René I of Naples</a>, to flee. He eventually settled in one of his remaining territories, Provence. </p><p>History and legend has given René the title "Good King René of Provence", though he only lived in Provence in the last ten years of his life, from 1470 to 1480, and his political policies of territorial expansion were costly and unsuccessful. Provence benefitted from population growth and economic expansion, and René was a generous patron of the arts, sponsoring painters <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Froment" title="Nicolas Froment">Nicolas Froment</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Br%C3%A9a" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Bréa">Louis Bréa</a>, and other masters. He also completed one of the finest castles in Provence at <a href="/wiki/Tarascon_castle" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarascon castle">Tarascon</a>, on the Rhône river. </p><p>When René died in 1480, his title passed to his nephew <a href="/wiki/Charles_IV,_Duke_of_Anjou" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles IV, Duke of Anjou">Charles du Maine</a>. One year later, in 1481, when Charles died, the title passed to <a href="/wiki/Louis_XI_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XI of France">Louis XI of France</a>. Provence was legally incorporated into the French royal domain in 1486. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Detail of the Burning Bush triptych by Nicolas Froment, showing René and his wife Jeanne de Laval"><img alt="Detail of the Burning Bush triptych by Nicolas Froment, showing René and his wife Jeanne de Laval" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg/130px-Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg/195px-Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg/260px-Nicolas_Froment_004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1576" data-file-height="2425" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Detail of the <i>Burning Bush</i> <a href="/wiki/Triptych" title="Triptych">triptych</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Froment" title="Nicolas Froment">Nicolas Froment</a>, showing <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_of_Anjou" title="René of Anjou">René</a> and his wife <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_de_Laval" title="Jeanne de Laval">Jeanne de Laval</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Chateau of René in Tarascon (15th century)"><img alt="The Chateau of René in Tarascon (15th century)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg/200px-Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg/300px-Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg/400px-Tarascon_Le_Chateau.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1065" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Tarascon" title="Château de Tarascon">Chateau of René</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tarascon" title="Tarascon">Tarascon</a> (15th century)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1486_to_1789">1486 to 1789</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1486 to 1789"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Soon after Provence became part of France, it became involved in the <a href="/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" title="French Wars of Religion">Wars of Religion</a> that swept the country in the 16th century. Between 1493 and 1501, many Jews were expelled from their homes and sought sanctuary in the region of Avignon, which was still under the direct rule of the Pope. In 1545, the <a href="/wiki/Parlement_of_Aix-en-Provence" title="Parlement of Aix-en-Provence">Parlement of Aix-en-Provence</a> ordered the destruction of the villages of Lourmarin, Mérindol, Cabriéres in the Luberon, because their inhabitants were <a href="/wiki/Waldensians" title="Waldensians">Vaudois</a>, of Italian <a href="/wiki/Piedmontese" class="mw-redirect" title="Piedmontese">Piedmontese</a> origin, and were not considered sufficiently orthodox Catholics. Most of Provence remained strongly Catholic, though Protestants controlled the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Orange" title="Principality of Orange">Principality of Orange</a>, an enclave ruled by William of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Orange-Nassau" title="House of Orange-Nassau">House of Orange-Nassau</a> of the Netherlands, who inherited it in 1544 and which was not incorporated into France until 1673. An army of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_League_(French)" title="Catholic League (French)">Catholic League</a> laid siege to the Protestant city of Mėnerbes in the <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse" title="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</a> between 1573 and 1578. The wars did not stop until the end of the 16th century, with the consolidation of power in Provence by the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Bourbon" title="House of Bourbon">Bourbon</a> kings. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vernet-toulon-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Vernet-toulon-1.jpg/220px-Vernet-toulon-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Vernet-toulon-1.jpg/330px-Vernet-toulon-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Vernet-toulon-1.jpg/440px-Vernet-toulon-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2173" data-file-height="1342" /></a><figcaption>View of Toulon Harbour around 1750, by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Vernet" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Vernet">Joseph Vernet</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The semi-independent Parliament of Provence in Aix and some of the cities of Provence, particularly Marseille, continued to rebel against the authority of the Bourbon king. After uprisings in 1630–31 and 1648–1652, the young King <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a> had two large forts, fort St. Jean and Fort St. Nicholas, built at the harbour entrance to control the city's unruly population. </p><p>At the beginning of the 17th century, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu" title="Cardinal Richelieu">Cardinal Richelieu</a> began to build a naval arsenal and dockyard at Toulon to serve as a base for a new French Mediterranean fleet. The base was greatly enlarged by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert" title="Jean-Baptiste Colbert">Jean-Baptiste Colbert</a>, the minister of Louis XIV, who also commissioned his chief military engineer <a href="/wiki/Vauban" class="mw-redirect" title="Vauban">Vauban</a> to strengthen the fortifications around the city. </p><p>At the beginning of the 17th century, Provence had a population of about 450,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-Bastié,_pg._35_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bastié,_pg._35-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was predominantly rural, devoted to raising wheat, wine, and olives, with small industries for tanning, pottery, perfume-making, and ship and boat building. <a href="/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_quilts" title="Provençal quilts">Provençal quilts</a>, made from the mid-17th century onwards, were successfully exported to England, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.<sup id="cite_ref-isa_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isa-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was considerable commerce along the coast, and up and down the Rhône river. The cities: Marseille, <a href="/wiki/Toulon" title="Toulon">Toulon</a>, Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, saw the construction of boulevards and richly decorated private houses. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg/220px-Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg/330px-Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg/440px-Vernet-marseille-1754.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2221" data-file-height="1611" /></a><figcaption>Marseille in 1754, by Vernet</figcaption></figure> <p>At the beginning of the 18th century, Provence suffered from the economic malaise of the end of the reign of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XIV of France">Louis XIV</a>. The plague struck the region between 1720 and 1722, beginning in Marseille, killing some 40,000 people. Still, by the end of the century, many artisanal industries began to flourish; making <a href="/wiki/Perfumes" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfumes">perfumes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Grasse" title="Grasse">Grasse</a>; olive oil in Aix and the <a href="/wiki/Alpilles" title="Alpilles">Alpilles</a>; textiles in Orange, Avignon and Tarascon; and <a href="/wiki/Faience" title="Faience">faience</a> pottery in Marseille, Apt, <a href="/wiki/Aubagne" title="Aubagne">Aubagne</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Moustiers-Sainte-Marie" title="Moustiers-Sainte-Marie">Moustiers-Sainte-Marie</a>. Many immigrants arrived from Liguria and the Piedmont in Italy. By the end of the 18th century, Marseille had a population of 120,000 people, making it the third largest city in France.<sup id="cite_ref-Bastié,_pg._35_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bastié,_pg._35-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="During_the_French_Revolution">During the French Revolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: During the French Revolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a></div> <p>Most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, and the Revolution was as violent and bloody in Provence as it was in other parts of France. On 30 April 1790, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Saint-Nicolas_in_Marseille" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille">Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille</a> was besieged, and many of the soldiers inside were massacred. On 17 October 1791, a massacre of royalists and religious figures took place in the ice storage rooms (<i>glacières</i>) of the prison of the <a href="/wiki/Palais_des_Papes" title="Palais des Papes">Palace of the Popes</a> in Avignon. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marche-des-marseillois.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Marche-des-marseillois.jpg/220px-Marche-des-marseillois.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Marche-des-marseillois.jpg/330px-Marche-des-marseillois.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Marche-des-marseillois.jpg/440px-Marche-des-marseillois.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2882" data-file-height="3016" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/La_Marseillaise" title="La Marseillaise">La Marseillaise</a>, 1792</figcaption></figure> <p>When the radical <a href="/wiki/Montagnard_(French_Revolution)" class="mw-redirect" title="Montagnard (French Revolution)">Montagnards</a> seized power from the <a href="/wiki/Girondins" title="Girondins">Girondins</a> in May 1793, a real counter-revolution broke out in Avignon, Marseille and Toulon. A revolutionary army under <a href="/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Carteaux" title="Jean François Carteaux">General Carteaux</a> recaptured Marseille in August 1793 and renamed it "City without a Name" (<i>Ville sans Nom</i>.) In Toulon, the opponents of the Revolution handed the city to a British and Spanish fleet on 28 August 1793. A Revolutionary Army laid siege to the British positions for four months (see the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Toulon" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Toulon">Siege of Toulon</a>) and finally, the enterprise of the young commander of artillery, <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a> defeated the British and drove them out in December 1793. About 15,000 royalists escaped with the British fleet, but five to eight hundred of the 7,000 who remained were shot on the Champ de Mars, and Toulon was renamed "Port la Montagne". </p><p>The fall of the Montagnards in July 1794 was followed by a new <a href="/wiki/First_White_Terror" title="First White Terror">White Terror</a> aimed at the revolutionaries. Calm was not restored until the rise of the <a href="/wiki/French_Directory" title="French Directory">Directory</a> to power in 1795. </p><p>Provence produced some memorable figures in the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>; both moderates such as the <a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Gabriel_Riqueti,_comte_de_Mirabeau" title="Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau">comte de Mirabeau</a> and figures of the far left such as the <a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade" title="Marquis de Sade">Marquis de Sade</a>; there was also the military figure <a href="/wiki/Charles_Barbaroux" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Barbaroux">Charles Barbaroux</a> and the theorist <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel-Joseph_Siey%C3%A8s" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès">Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès</a> (1748–1836), who instigated the coup of <a href="/wiki/18_Brumaire" class="mw-redirect" title="18 Brumaire">18 Brumaire</a> which brought <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> to power. The revolutionary anthem <i><a href="/wiki/La_Marseillaise" title="La Marseillaise">La Marseillaise</a></i> despite its origins on the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Rhine" class="mw-redirect" title="Army of the Rhine">Rhine</a> got its name because revolutionary volunteers from Marseille sang it on the streets of Paris. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Under_Napoleon">Under Napoleon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Under Napoleon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> restored the belongings and power of the families of the <a href="/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancien Régime">Ancien Régime</a> in Provence. The British fleet of Admiral <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Horatio Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a> blockaded Toulon, and almost all maritime commerce was stopped, causing hardship and poverty. When Napoleon was defeated, his fall was celebrated in Provence. When he escaped from <a href="/wiki/Elba" title="Elba">Elba</a> on 1 March 1815, and landed at <a href="/wiki/Golfe-Juan" title="Golfe-Juan">Golfe-Juan</a>, he detoured to avoid the cities of Provence, which were hostile to him, and therefore directed his small force directly to the northeast of it.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marseille_port_c1825.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Marseille_port_c1825.jpg/220px-Marseille_port_c1825.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Marseille_port_c1825.jpg/330px-Marseille_port_c1825.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Marseille_port_c1825.jpg/440px-Marseille_port_c1825.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2479" data-file-height="1633" /></a><figcaption>Marseille in 1825</figcaption></figure> <p>Provence enjoyed prosperity in the 19th century; the ports of Marseille and Toulon connected Provence with the expanding <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French Empire</a> in North Africa and the Orient, especially after the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a> in 1869. </p><p>In April–July 1859, <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a> made a secret agreement with <a href="/wiki/Count_Camillo_Benso_di_Cavour" class="mw-redirect" title="Count Camillo Benso di Cavour">Cavour</a>, Prime Minister of <a href="/wiki/Piedmont" title="Piedmont">Piedmont</a>, for France to assist in expelling Austria from the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Peninsula">Italian Peninsula</a> and bringing about a united Italy, in exchange for Piedmont ceding <a href="/wiki/Savoy" title="Savoy">Savoy</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a> region to France. He went to war with Austria in 1859 and won a victory at <a href="/wiki/Solferino" title="Solferino">Solferino</a>, which resulted in Austria ceding <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombardy</a> to France. France immediately ceded Lombardy to <a href="/wiki/Piedmont" title="Piedmont">Piedmont</a>, and, in return, Napoleon received Savoy and Nice in 1860, and <a href="/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin" title="Roquebrune-Cap-Martin">Roquebrune-Cap-Martin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Menton" title="Menton">Menton</a> in 1861. </p><p>The railroad connected Paris with Marseille (1848) and then with Toulon and Nice (1864). Nice, <a href="/wiki/Antibes" title="Antibes">Antibes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a> became popular winter resorts for European royalty, including <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>. Under Napoleon III, Marseille grew to a population of 250,000, including a very large Italian community. Toulon had a population of 80,000. The large cities like Marseille and Toulon saw the building of churches, opera houses, grand boulevards, and parks. </p><p>After the fall of Louis Napoleon following the defeat in the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>, barricades went up in the streets of Marseille (23 March 1871) and the <a href="/wiki/Communards" title="Communards">Communards</a>, led by Gaston Cremieux and following the lead of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Commune" title="Paris Commune">Paris Commune</a>, took control of the city. The Commune was crushed by the army and Cremieux was executed on 30 November 1871. Though Provence was generally conservative, it often elected reformist leaders; Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Gambetta" title="Léon Gambetta">Léon Gambetta</a> was the son of a Marseille grocer, and future prime minister <a href="/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau" title="Georges Clemenceau">Georges Clemenceau</a> was elected deputy of Var in 1885. </p><p>The second half of the 19th century saw a revival of the <a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Provençal language</a> and culture, particularly traditional rural values. driven by a movement of writers and poets called the <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9librige" title="Félibrige">Félibrige</a>, led by poet <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral" title="Frédéric Mistral">Frédéric Mistral</a>. Mistral achieved literary success with his poem <a href="/wiki/Mir%C3%A8io" title="Mirèio">Mirèio</a> (<i>Mireille</i> in French); he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1904. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Between World War I and World War II, Provence was bitterly divided between the more conservative rural areas and the more radical big cities. There were widespread strikes in Marseille in 1919, and riots in Toulon in 1935. </p><p>After the defeat of France by Germany in June 1940, France was divided into an occupied zone and unoccupied zone, with Provence in the unoccupied zone. Parts of eastern Provence were occupied by Italian soldiers. Collaboration and passive resistance gradually gave way to more active resistance, particularly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the Communist Party became active in the resistance. <a href="/wiki/Jean_Moulin" title="Jean Moulin">Jean Moulin</a>, the deputy of <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a>, the leader of the Free France resistance movement, was parachuted into <a href="/wiki/Eygali%C3%A8res" title="Eygalières">Eygalières</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Bouches-du-Rhône">Bouches-du-Rhône</a> on 2 January 1942 to unite the diverse resistance movements in all of France against the Germans. </p><p>In November 1942, following Allied landings in North Africa (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Torch" title="Operation Torch">Operation Torch</a>), the Germans occupied all of Provence (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Attila_(World_War_II)" title="Operation Attila (World War II)">Operation Attila</a>) and then headed for Toulon (<a href="/wiki/Case_Anton" title="Case Anton">Case Anton</a>). The French fleet at Toulon sabotaged its own ships to keep them from falling into German hands. </p><p>The Germans began a systematic rounding-up of French Jews and refugees from Nice and Marseille. Many thousands were taken to concentration camps, and few survived. A large quarter around the port of Marseille was emptied of inhabitants and dynamited, so it would not serve as a base for the resistance. Nonetheless, the resistance grew stronger; the leader of the pro-German militia, the Milice, in Marseille was assassinated in April 1943. </p><p>On 15 August 1944, two months after the Allied landings in Normandy (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Operation Overlord</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Seventh_United_States_Army" title="Seventh United States Army">Seventh United States Army</a> under General <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Patch" title="Alexander Patch">Alexander Patch</a>, with a <a href="/wiki/Free_French" class="mw-redirect" title="Free French">Free French</a> corps under General <a href="/wiki/Jean_de_Lattre_de_Tassigny" title="Jean de Lattre de Tassigny">Jean de Lattre de Tassigny</a>, landed on the coast of Var between <a href="/wiki/Saint-Rapha%C3%ABl,_Var" title="Saint-Raphaël, Var">St. Raphael</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cavalaire" class="mw-redirect" title="Cavalaire">Cavalaire</a> (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragoon" title="Operation Dragoon">Operation Dragoon</a>). The American forces moved north toward <a href="/wiki/Manosque" title="Manosque">Manosque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sisteron" title="Sisteron">Sisteron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gap,_Hautes-Alpes" title="Gap, Hautes-Alpes">Gap</a>, while the French First Armored Division under General Vigier liberated Brignoles, Salon, Arles, and Avignon. The Germans in Toulon resisted until 27 August, and Marseille was not liberated until 25 August. </p><p>After the end of the war, Provence faced an enormous task of reconstruction, particularly of the ports and railroads destroyed during the war. As part of this effort, the first modern concrete apartment block, the <a href="/wiki/Unit%C3%A9_d%27habitation" title="Unité d'habitation">Unité d'habitation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Corbusier" class="mw-redirect" title="Corbusier">Corbusier</a>, was built in Marseille in 1947–52. In 1962, Provence absorbed a large number of French citizens who left Algeria after its independence. Since that time, large North African communities settled in and around the big cities, particularly Marseille and Toulon. </p><p>In the 1940s, Provence underwent a cultural renewal, with the founding of the <a href="/wiki/Avignon_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Avignon Festival">Avignon Festival</a> of theatre (1947), the reopening of the <a href="/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival" title="Cannes Film Festival">Cannes Film Festival</a> (begun in 1939), and many other major events. With the building of new highways, particularly the Paris Marseille autoroute which opened in 1970, Provence became destination for mass tourism from all over Europe. Many Europeans, particularly from Britain, bought summer houses in Provence. The arrival of the <a href="/wiki/TGV" title="TGV">TGV</a> high-speed trains shortened the trip from Paris to Marseille to less than four hours. </p><p>In recent years, residents of Provence have struggled to reconcile economic development and population growth with their desire to preserve the region's unique landscape and culture. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png/220px-Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png/330px-Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png/440px-Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png 2x" data-file-width="787" data-file-height="799" /></a><figcaption>The Roman Province of <a href="/wiki/Gallia_Narbonensis" title="Gallia Narbonensis">Gallia Narbonensis</a> around 58 BC</figcaption></figure> <p>The original Roman province was called Gallia Transalpina, then <a href="/wiki/Gallia_Narbonensis" title="Gallia Narbonensis">Gallia Narbonensis</a>, or simply <i>Provincia Nostra</i> ('Our Province') or <i>Provincia</i>. It extended from the <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a> and north to the <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse" title="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</a>, with its capital in Narbo Martius (present-day <a href="/wiki/Narbonne" title="Narbonne">Narbonne</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Location_and_borders">Location and borders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Location and borders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 15th century, the County of Provence was bordered by the river <a href="/wiki/Var_(river)" title="Var (river)">Var</a> on the east and the <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Rhône">Rhône</a> to the west, with the Mediterranean to the south, and a northern border that roughly followed the <a href="/wiki/Durance" title="Durance">Durance</a>. Bordering it on the northwest were two territories that had earlier formed part of Provence, i.e., the <a href="/wiki/Comtat_Venaissin" title="Comtat Venaissin">Comtat Venaissin</a>, centered on <a href="/wiki/Avignon" title="Avignon">Avignon</a> which was ruled by the pope from the 13th century until the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, and, just north of this, the Principality of Orange, that through inheritance became a possession of <a href="/wiki/William_the_Silent" title="William the Silent">William the Silent</a>, who became the founder of the present ruling house of the Netherlands, the House of Orange-Nassau. The principality was independent between the 12th century and 1673 when it was occupied and then annexed by <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a> during one of his wars with its prince, Dutch stadtholder William III, the future king of England. At the end of the 14th century, another piece of Provence along the Italian border, including <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a> and the lower Alps, was detached from Provence and attached to the lands of the duke of <a href="/wiki/Savoy" title="Savoy">Savoy</a>. The lower Alps were re-attached to France after the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Utrecht" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Utrecht">Treaty of Utrecht</a> in 1713, but Nice did not return to France until 1860, during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The administrative region of <a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-Cote_d%27Azur" class="mw-redirect" title="Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur</a> was created in 1982. It included Provence, plus the territory of the Comtat Venaissin around Avignon, and the Principality of Orange, the eastern portion of the <a href="/wiki/Dauphin%C3%A9" title="Dauphiné">Dauphiné</a>, and the former <a href="/wiki/County_of_Nice" title="County of Nice">County of Nice</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rivers">Rivers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Rivers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg/220px-France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg/330px-France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg/440px-France_Avignon_Total_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2266" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Rhône">Rhône</a> at Avignon</figcaption></figure> <p>The Rhône river, on the western border of Provence, is one of the major rivers of France, and has been a highway of commerce and communications between inland France and the Mediterranean for centuries. It rises as the effluent of the <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne_Glacier" title="Rhône Glacier">Rhône Glacier</a> in <a href="/wiki/Valais" title="Valais">Valais</a>, Switzerland, in the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gotthard_massif" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Gotthard massif">Saint-Gotthard massif</a>, at an altitude of 1753 m. It is joined by the river <a href="/wiki/Sa%C3%B4ne" title="Saône">Saône</a> at Lyon. Along the Rhône Valley, it is joined on the right bank by the rivers <a href="/wiki/Eyrieux" title="Eyrieux">Eyrieux</a>, Ardèche, <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A8ze" title="Cèze">Cèze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gardon" title="Gardon">Gardon</a> (or Gard), on the left Alps bank by rivers <a href="/wiki/Is%C3%A8re" title="Isère">Isère</a>, Drôme, <a href="/wiki/Ouv%C3%A8ze" title="Ouvèze">Ouvèze</a> and Durance. At Arles, the Rhône divides itself in two arms, forming the <a href="/wiki/Camargue" title="Camargue">Camargue</a> delta, with all branches flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. One arm is called the "Grand Rhône"; the other one is the "Petit Rhône". </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG/220px-Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG/330px-Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG/440px-Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re_du_Tilleul-Route_des_Cr%C3%AAtes-Gorges_du_Verdon.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Verdon_Gorge" title="Verdon Gorge">Gorge du Verdon</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Durance river, a tributary of the Rhône, has its source in the Alps near <a href="/wiki/Brian%C3%A7on" title="Briançon">Briançon</a>. It flows south-west through <a href="/wiki/Embrun,_Hautes-Alpes" title="Embrun, Hautes-Alpes">Embrun</a>, Sisteron, Manosque, Cavaillon, and Avignon, where it meets the Rhône. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Verdon_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Verdon River">Verdon River</a> is a tributary of the Durance, rising at an altitude of 2,400 metres in the southwestern Alps near Barcelonette, and flowing southwest for 175 kilometres through the departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Var before it reaches the Durance at near <a href="/wiki/Vinon-sur-Verdon" title="Vinon-sur-Verdon">Vinon-sur-Verdon</a>, south of Manosque. The Verdon is best known for its canyon, the <a href="/wiki/Verdon_Gorge" title="Verdon Gorge">Verdon Gorge</a>. This limestone canyon, also called the 'Grand Canyon of Verdon', 20 kilometres in length and more than 300 metres deep, is a popular climbing and sight-seeing area. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Var_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Var River">Var River</a> rises near the Col de la Cayolle (2,326 m; 7,631 ft) in the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Alps" title="Maritime Alps">Maritime Alps</a> and flows generally southeast for 120 kilometres (75 mi) into the Mediterranean between Nice and <a href="/wiki/Saint-Laurent-du-Var" title="Saint-Laurent-du-Var">Saint-Laurent-du-Var</a>. Before Nice was returned to France in 1860, the Var marked the eastern border of France along the Mediterranean. The Var is the unique case in France of a river giving a name to a department, but not flowing through that department (due to subsequent adjustments to the department's boundaries). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Camargue">Camargue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Camargue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With an area of over 930 km<sup>2</sup> (360 sq mi), <a href="/wiki/Camargue" title="Camargue">Camargue</a> is western Europe's largest river delta (technically an island, as it is wholly surrounded by water). It is a vast plain comprising large <a href="/wiki/Brine" title="Brine">brine</a> lagoons or <i>étangs</i>, cut off from the sea by sandbars and encircled by <a href="/wiki/Phragmites" title="Phragmites">reed</a>-covered <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">marshes</a> which are in turn surrounded by a large cultivated area. It is home to more than 400 species of birds, the brine ponds providing one of the few European habitats for the <a href="/wiki/Greater_flamingo" title="Greater flamingo">greater flamingo</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mountains">Mountains</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Mountains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alpilles_landscape.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Alpilles_landscape.jpg/220px-Alpilles_landscape.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Alpilles_landscape.jpg/330px-Alpilles_landscape.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Alpilles_landscape.jpg/440px-Alpilles_landscape.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Alpilles" title="Alpilles">Alpilles</a> landscape near Le Destet</figcaption></figure> <p>By considering the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Alps" title="Maritime Alps">Maritime Alps</a>, along the border with Italy, as a part of the cultural Provence, they constitute the highest elevations of the region (the <a href="/wiki/Punta_dell%27Argentera" class="mw-redirect" title="Punta dell'Argentera">Punta dell'Argentera</a> has an elevation of 3,297 m). They form the border between the French <i><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9partement_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Département in France">département</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a> and the Italian <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Cuneo" title="Province of Cuneo">province of Cuneo</a>. <a href="/wiki/Mercantour_National_Park" title="Mercantour National Park">Mercantour National Park</a> is located in the Maritime Alps. On the other hand, if the <i>département</i> <a href="/wiki/Hautes_Alpes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hautes Alpes">Hautes Alpes</a> is also considered as part of the modern Provence, then the alpin <a href="/wiki/Massif_des_%C3%89crins" title="Massif des Écrins">Écrins mountains</a> represent the highest elevations of the region with the <a href="/wiki/Barre_des_%C3%89crins" title="Barre des Écrins">Barre des Écrins</a> culminating at 4102m. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg/220px-Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg/330px-Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg/440px-Mont_ventoux_from_mirabel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1438" data-file-height="809" /></a><figcaption>View of Mont Ventoux from <a href="/wiki/Mirabel-aux-Baronnies" title="Mirabel-aux-Baronnies">Mirabel-aux-Baronnies</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg/220px-Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg/330px-Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg/440px-Vallon_de_Molli%C3%A8res_2004_07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Vallon de Mollières, <a href="/wiki/Mercantour_National_Park" title="Mercantour National Park">Mercantour National Park</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Outside of the Maritime Alps, <a href="/wiki/Mont_Ventoux" title="Mont Ventoux">Mont Ventoux</a> (Occitan: Ventor in classical norm or Ventour in Mistralian norm), at 1,909 metres (6,263 ft), is the highest peak in Provence. It is located some 20 km north-east of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the Drôme département. It is nicknamed the "Giant of Provence", or "The Bald Mountain". Although geologically part of the <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a>, is often considered to be separate from them, due to the lack of mountains of a similar height nearby. It stands alone to the west of the <a href="/wiki/Luberon" title="Luberon">Luberon</a> range, and just to the east of the <a href="/wiki/Dentelles_de_Montmirail" title="Dentelles de Montmirail">Dentelles de Montmirail</a>, its foothills. The top of the mountain is bare limestone without vegetation or trees. The white limestone on the mountain's barren peak means it appears from a distance to be snow-capped all year round (its snow cover actually lasts from December to April). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Alpilles" title="Alpilles">Alpilles</a> are a chain of small mountains located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Avignon. Although they are not particularly high – only some 387 metres (1,270 ft) at their highest point – the Alpilles stand out since they rise abruptly from the plain of the <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Rhône">Rhône</a> valley. The range is about 25 km long by about 8 to 10 km wide, running in an east–west direction between the Rhône and Durance rivers. The landscape of the Alpilles is one of arid <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> peaks separated by dry valleys. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine,_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine%2C_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg/220px-Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine%2C_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine%2C_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg/330px-Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine%2C_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine%2C_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg/440px-Mont_Sainte-Victoire_with_Large_Pine%2C_by_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2686" data-file-height="1983" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Mont_Sainte-Victoire_(C%C3%A9zanne)" title="Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)">Mont Sainte-Victoire</a></i>, painted by Paul Cézanne</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Montagne_Sainte-Victoire" title="Montagne Sainte-Victoire">Montagne Sainte-Victoire</a> is probably the best-known mountain in Provence, thanks to the painter Paul Cézanne, who could see it from his home, and painted it frequently. It is a <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> mountain ridge which extends over 18 kilometres between the <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9partements_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Départements of France">départements</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Bouches-du-Rhône">Bouches-du-Rhône</a> and <a href="/wiki/Var_(d%C3%A9partement)" class="mw-redirect" title="Var (département)">Var</a>. Its highest point is the <i>Pic des mouches</i> at 1,011 m. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Massif_des_Maures" title="Massif des Maures">Massif des Maures</a> (Moor Mountains) is a small chain of mountains that lies along the coast of the Mediterranean in the department of Var, between <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a> et <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus" title="Fréjus">Fréjus</a>. Its highest point is the signal de la Sauvette, 780 metres high. The name is a souvenir of the <a href="/wiki/Moors" title="Moors">Moors</a> (<i>Maures</i> in Old French), <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Berber_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Berber people">Berbers</a> from North Africa, who settled on the coast of Provence in the 9th and 10th centuries. The Massif des Maures extends about sixty kilometres along the coast, and reaches inland about thirty kilometres. On the north it is bordered by a depression which is followed by the <i><a href="/wiki/Route_nationale" title="Route nationale">routes nationales</a></i> 97 and 7, and the railroad line between Toulon and Nice. On the south it ends abruptly at the Mediterranean, forming a broken and abrupt coastline. </p><p>The peninsula of <a href="/wiki/Saint-Tropez" title="Saint-Tropez">Saint-Tropez</a> is part of the Massif des Maures, along with the <a href="/wiki/Giens_Peninsula" title="Giens Peninsula">Giens Peninsula</a> and the islands offshore of <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Eles_d%27Hy%C3%A8res" title="Îles d'Hyères">Hyères</a>; <a href="/wiki/Porquerolles" title="Porquerolles">Porquerolles</a>, Port-Cros, and <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_du_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Île du Levant">île du Levant</a>. Cape Sicié, west of Toulon, as well as the Massif de Tanneron, belong geologically to the Massif des Maures. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Calanques">The Calanques</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: The Calanques"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg/170px-En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg/255px-En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg/340px-En-Vau_calanque_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="4900" /></a><figcaption>Calanque En-Vau</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Calanques" class="mw-redirect" title="Calanques">Calanques</a> form a dramatic feature of the Provence coast, a 20-km long series of narrow inlets in the cliffs of the coastline between Marseille on the west and <a href="/wiki/Cassis,_Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" class="mw-redirect" title="Cassis, Bouches-du-Rhône">Cassis</a> on the east. The best known examples of this formation can be found in the <a href="/wiki/Massif_des_Calanques" title="Massif des Calanques">Massif des Calanques</a>. The highest peak in the massif is <a href="/wiki/Mont_Puget" title="Mont Puget">Mont Puget</a>, 565 metres high. </p><p>The best known calanques of the Massif des Calanques include the <a href="/wiki/Calanque_de_Sormiou" title="Calanque de Sormiou">Calanque de Sormiou</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Calanque_de_Morgiou" title="Calanque de Morgiou">Calanque de Morgiou</a>, the Calanque d'En-Vau, the Calanque de Port-Pin and the <a href="/wiki/Calanque_de_Sugiton" title="Calanque de Sugiton">Calanque de Sugiton</a>. </p><p>The calanques are remains of ancient river mouths formed mostly during <a href="/wiki/Tertiary" title="Tertiary">Tertiary</a>. Later, during <a href="/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation" title="Quaternary glaciation">Quaternary glaciation</a>, as glaciers swept by, they further deepened those valleys which would eventually (at the end of the last glaciation) be invaded by the sea and become calanques. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cosquer_cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosquer cave">Cosquer cave</a> is an underwater grotto in the Calanque de Morgiou, 37 metres (121 ft) underwater, that was inhabited during <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a> era, when the sea level was much lower than today. Its walls are covered with paintings and engravings dating back to between 27,000 and 19,000 BC, depicting animals such as bison, ibex, and horses, as well as sea mammals such as seals, and at least one bird, the auk. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Landscapes">Landscapes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Landscapes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG/220px-Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG/330px-Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG/440px-Garrigue_2007-09-20.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Garrigue" title="Garrigue">Garrigue</a>, typical landscape of Provence</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Garrigue" title="Garrigue">garrigue</a> is the typical landscape of Provence; it is a type of low, soft-leaved <a href="/wiki/Scrubland" class="mw-redirect" title="Scrubland">scrubland</a> or <a href="/wiki/Chaparral" title="Chaparral">chaparral</a> found on limestone soils around the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean Basin">Mediterranean Basin</a>, generally near the seacoast, where the climate is moderate, but where there are annual summer drought conditions.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Juniper" title="Juniper">Juniper</a> and stunted <a href="/wiki/Quercus_ilex" title="Quercus ilex">holm oaks</a> are the typical trees; aromatic lime-tolerant shrubs such as <a href="/wiki/Lavender" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavender">lavender</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salvia_officinalis" title="Salvia officinalis">sage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosemary" title="Rosemary">rosemary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wild_thyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Wild thyme">wild thyme</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Artemisia_(plant)" title="Artemisia (plant)">Artemisia</a></i> are common garrigue plants. The open landscape of the garrigue is punctuated by dense thickets of <a href="/wiki/Kermes_oak" class="mw-redirect" title="Kermes oak">Kermes oak</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG/220px-Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG/330px-Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG/440px-Mistral_sur_le_Frioul.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2526" data-file-height="1684" /></a><figcaption>Mistral blowing near Marseille. In the center is the <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27If" title="Château d'If">Château d'If</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Most of Provence has a <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_climate" title="Mediterranean climate">Mediterranean climate</a>, characterised by hot, dry summers, mild winters, little snow, and abundant sunshine. Within Provence there are micro-climates and local variations, ranging from the Alpine climate inland from Nice to the continental climate in the northern <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse" title="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Winds_of_Provence" title="Winds of Provence">winds of Provence</a> are an important feature of the climate, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Mistral_(wind)" title="Mistral (wind)">mistral</a>, a cold, dry wind which, especially in the winter, blows down the Rhône Valley to the <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Bouches-du-Rhône">Bouches-du-Rhône</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Var_(department)" title="Var (department)">Var</a> Departments, and often reaches over one hundred kilometres an hour. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bouches-du-Rhône"><span id="Bouches-du-Rh.C3.B4ne"></span>Bouches-du-Rhône</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Bouches-du-Rhône"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marseille, in the <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Bouches-du-Rhône">Bouches-du-Rhône</a>, has an average of 59 days of rain a year, though when it does rain the rain is often torrential; the average annual rainfall is 544.4 mm. It snows an average of 2.3 days a year, and the snow rarely remains long. Marseille has an average of 2835.5 hours of sunshine a year. The average minimum temperature in January is 2.3 °C., and the average maximum temperature in July is 29.3 °C. The mistral blows an average of one hundred days a year.<sup id="cite_ref-infoclimat_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoclimat-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Var">Var</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Var"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Toulon" title="Toulon">Toulon</a> and Var, which includes <a href="/wiki/St._Tropez" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Tropez">St. Tropez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a>, have a climate slightly warmer, dryer and sunnier than Nice and the Alpes-Maritime, but also less sheltered from the wind. Toulon has an average of 2899.3 hours of sunshine a year, making it the sunniest city in metropolitan France,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The average maximum daily temperature in August is 29.1 °C., and the average daily minimum temperature in January is 5.8 °C. The average annual rainfall is 665 mm, with the most rain from October to November. Strong winds blow an average of 118 days a year in Toulon, compared with 76 days at Fréjus further east. The strongest Mistral wind recorded in Toulon was 130 kilometres an hour.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Alpes-Maritimes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a> department are sheltered by the Alps, and are the most protected part of the Mediterranean coast. The winds in this department are usually gentle, blowing from the sea to the land, though sometimes the mistral blows strongly from the northwest, or, turned by the mountains, from the east. In 1956, a mistral wind from the northwest reached the speed of 180 kilometres an hour at Nice airport. Sometimes in summer the <a href="/wiki/Sirocco" title="Sirocco">sirocco</a> brings high temperatures and reddish desert sand from Africa (see <a href="/wiki/Winds_of_Provence" title="Winds of Provence">Winds of Provence</a>). </p><p>Rainfall is infrequent, 63 days a year, but can be torrential, particularly in September, when storms and rain are caused by the difference between the colder air inland and the warm Mediterranean water temperature (20–24 degrees C.). The average annual rainfall in Nice is 767 mm, more than in Paris, but concentrated in fewer days. </p><p>Snow is extremely rare, usually falling once every ten years. 1956 was a very exceptional year, when 20 centimetres of snow blanketed the coast. In January 1985 the coast between Cannes and Menton received 30 to 40 centimetres of snow. In the mountains, the snow is present from November to May. </p><p>Nice has an annual average of 2694 hours of sunshine. The average maximum daily temperature in Nice in August is 28 °C., and the average minimum daily temperature in January is 6 °C.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alpes-de-Haute-Provence">Alpes-de-Haute-Provence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The department of <a href="/wiki/Alpes-de-Haute-Provence" title="Alpes-de-Haute-Provence">Alpes-de-Haute-Provence</a> has a Mediterranean climate in the lower valleys under one thousand metres in altitude and an <a href="/wiki/Alpine_climate" title="Alpine climate">alpine climate</a> in the high valleys, such as the valleys of the Blanche, the Haut Verdon and the <a href="/wiki/Ubaye_Valley" title="Ubaye Valley">Ubaye</a>, which are over 2500 metres high. The alpine climate in the higher mountains is moderated by the warmer air from the Mediterranean. </p><p>Haute-Provence has unusually high summer temperatures for its altitude and latitude (<a href="/wiki/44th_parallel_north" title="44th parallel north">44 degrees north</a>). The average summer temperature is 22 to 23 °C. at an altitude of 400 metres, and 18 to 19 °C. at the altitude of 1000 metres; and the winter average temperature is 4 to 5 °C. at 400 metres and 0 C. at 1000 metres. The lower valleys have 50 days of freezing temperatures a year, more in the higher valleys. Sometimes the temperatures in the high valleys can reach −30 °C. Because of this combination of high mountains and Mediterranean air, it is not unusual that the region frequently has some of the lowest winter temperatures and some of the hottest summer temperatures in France. </p><p>Rainfall in Haute-Provence is infrequent – 60 to 80 days a year – but can be torrential; 650 to 900 mm. a year in the foothills and plateaus of the southwest, and in the valley of the Ubaye; and 900 to 1500 mm. in the mountains. Most rainfall comes in the autumn, in brief and intense storms; from mid-June to mid-August, rain falls during brief but violent thunderstorms. Thunder can be heard 30 to 40 days a year. </p><p>Snow falls in the mountains from November to May, and in midwinter can be found down to altitude of 1000–1200 metres on the shady side of the mountains and 1300 to 1600 metres on the sunny side. Snowfalls are usually fairly light, and melt rapidly. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Mistral_(wind)" title="Mistral (wind)">mistral</a>, a wind blowing from the north and the northwest, is a feature of the climate in the western part of the department, bringing clear and dry weather. The eastern part of the department is more protected from the mistral. A southerly wind known as the <a href="/wiki/Marin_(wind)" title="Marin (wind)">marin</a> brings warm air, clouds and rain. </p><p>Haute-Provence is one of the sunniest regions of France, with an average of between 2,550 and 2,650 hours of sunshine annually in the north of the department, and 2,700 to 2,800 hours in the southwest. The clear nights and sunny days cause a sharp difference between nighttime and daytime temperatures. Because of the clear nights, the region is home of important observatories, such as the <a href="/wiki/Observatory_of_Haute-Provence" class="mw-redirect" title="Observatory of Haute-Provence">Observatory of Haute-Provence</a> in Saint-Michel-Observatoire near <a href="/wiki/Forcalquier" title="Forcalquier">Forcalquier</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Vaucluse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Vaucluse" title="Vaucluse">Vaucluse</a> is the meeting point of three of the four different climatic zones of France; it has a <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_climate" title="Mediterranean climate">Mediterranean climate</a> in the south, an <a href="/wiki/Alpine_climate" title="Alpine climate">alpine climate</a> in the northeast, around the mountains of Vaucluse and the massif of the <a href="/wiki/Baronnies" title="Baronnies">Baronnies</a>; and a <a href="/wiki/Continental_climate" title="Continental climate">continental climate</a> in the northwest. The close proximity of these three different climates tends to moderate all of them, and the Mediterranean climate usually prevails. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Orange,_Vaucluse" title="Orange, Vaucluse">Orange</a> in the Vaucluse has 2595 hours of sunshine a year. It rains an average of 80 days a year, for a total of 693.4 mm a year. The maximum average temperature in July is 29.6 °C., and the average minimum temperature in January is 1.3 °C. There are an average of 110 days of strong winds a year.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg/220px-Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg/330px-Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg/440px-Frejus_Cathedral_Cloister_Ceiling.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>The 14th-century ceiling of the cloister of Fréjus Cathedral is decorated with paintings of animals, people and <a href="/wiki/Mythical_creature" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythical creature">mythical creatures</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg/170px-Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg/255px-Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg/340px-Nicolas_Froment_003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1256" data-file-height="2140" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Triptych" title="Triptych">Triptych</a> of the Burning Bush</i>, by Nicolas Froment, in <a href="/wiki/Aix_Cathedral" title="Aix Cathedral">Aix Cathedral</a> (15th century)</figcaption></figure> <p>Artists have been painting in Provence since prehistoric times; paintings of bisons, seals, auks and horses dating to between 27,000 and 19,000 BC were found in the <a href="/wiki/Cosquer_Cave" title="Cosquer Cave">Cosquer Cave</a> near Marseille.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 14th-century wooden ceiling of the cloister of <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus_Cathedral" title="Fréjus Cathedral">Fréjus Cathedral</a> has a remarkable series of paintings of biblical scenes, fantastic animals, and scenes from daily life, painted between 1350 and 1360. They include paintings of a fallen angel with the wings of a bat, a demon with the tail of a serpent, angels playing instruments, a tiger, an elephant, an ostrich, domestic and wild animals, a mermaid, a dragon, a centaur, a butcher, a knight, and a juggler.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Froment" title="Nicolas Froment">Nicolas Froment</a> (1435–1486) was the most important painter of Provence during the <a href="/wiki/French_Renaissance" title="French Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, best known for his <a href="/wiki/Triptych" title="Triptych">triptych</a> of the Burning Bush (c. 1476), commissioned by King <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="René I of Naples">René I of Naples</a>. The painting shows a combination of Moses, the Burning Bush, and the Virgin Mary "who gave birth but remained a virgin", just as the bush of Moses "-burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed". This is the explication according to a plaque in the cathedral. A more likely reason for the juxtaposition is that in 1400 a shepherd, or shepherds, discovered a miraculous statue of the Virgin and Child inside another burning bush (thorn bush specifically), in the village of L'Epine in the present day department of La Marne. The site and statue were later visited by the "Bon Roi René". The wings of the triptych show King René with <a href="/wiki/Mary_Magdalene" title="Mary Magdalene">Mary Magdalene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_the_Great" title="Anthony the Great">St. Anthony</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Maurice" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Maurice">St. Maurice</a> on one side, and Queen Jeanne de Laval, with <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria" title="Catherine of Alexandria">Saint Catherine</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_the_Evangelist" title="John the Evangelist">John the Evangelist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Nicholas" title="Saint Nicholas">Saint Nicholas</a> on the other.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Louis_Br%C3%A9a" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Bréa">Louis Bréa</a> (1450–1523) was a 15th-century painter, born in Nice, whose work is found in churches from Genoa to Antibes. His <i>Retable of Saint-Nicholas</i> (1500) is found in <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a>, and his <i>Retable de Notre-Dame-de-Rosaire</i> (1515) is found in <a href="/wiki/Antibes" title="Antibes">Antibes</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Paul_Puget" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Paul Puget">Pierre Paul Puget</a> (1620–1694), born in Marseille, was a painter of portraits and religious scenes, but was better known for his sculptures, found in <a href="/wiki/Toulon_Cathedral" title="Toulon Cathedral">Toulon Cathedral</a>, outside the <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_de_Ville,_Toulon" title="Hôtel de Ville, Toulon">Hôtel de Ville</a> of Toulon, and in the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>. There is a mountain named for him near Marseille, and a square in Toulon. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges,_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg/220px-L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg/330px-L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg/440px-L%27Estaque_aux_toits_rouges%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2536" data-file-height="2040" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" title="Paul Cézanne">Paul Cézanne</a>, <i>L'Estaque</i>, 1883–1885</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_(1853-1890)_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_(place_du_Forum)_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Vincent_van_Gogh_%281853-1890%29_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_%28place_du_Forum%29_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG/170px-Vincent_van_Gogh_%281853-1890%29_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_%28place_du_Forum%29_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Vincent_van_Gogh_%281853-1890%29_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_%28place_du_Forum%29_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG/255px-Vincent_van_Gogh_%281853-1890%29_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_%28place_du_Forum%29_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Vincent_van_Gogh_%281853-1890%29_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_%28place_du_Forum%29_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG/340px-Vincent_van_Gogh_%281853-1890%29_Caf%C3%A9terras_bij_nacht_%28place_du_Forum%29_Kr%C3%B6ller-M%C3%BCller_Museum_Otterlo_23-8-2016_13-35-40.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2864" data-file-height="3568" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a>, <i>Cafe Terrace at Night</i>, September 1888</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Paul_Signac_-_The_Port_of_Saint-Tropez_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3953" data-file-height="3144" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Paul_Signac" title="Paul Signac">Paul Signac</a>, <i>The Port of Saint-Tropez</i>, oil on canvas, 1901</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 19th and 20th centuries, many of the most famous painters in the world converged on Provence, drawn by the climate and the clarity of the light. The special quality of the light is partly a result of the <a href="/wiki/Mistral_(wind)" title="Mistral (wind)">Mistral (wind)</a>, which removes dust from the atmosphere, greatly increasing visibility. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Monticelli" title="Adolphe Monticelli">Adolphe Monticelli</a> (1824–1886) was born in Marseille, moved to Paris in 1846 and returned to Marseille in 1870. His work influenced <a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a> who greatly admired him.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" title="Paul Cézanne">Paul Cézanne</a> (1839–1906) was born in Aix-en-Provence, and lived and worked there most of his life. The local landscapes, particularly <a href="/wiki/Montagne_Sainte-Victoire" title="Montagne Sainte-Victoire">Montagne Sainte-Victoire</a>, featured often in his work. He also painted frequently at <a href="/wiki/L%27Estaque" title="L'Estaque">L'Estaque</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a> (1853–1890) lived little more than two years in Provence, but his fame as a painter is largely a result of what he painted there. He lived in <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a> from February 1888 to May 1889, and then in Saint-Remy from May 1889 until May 1890.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auguste_Renoir" class="mw-redirect" title="Auguste Renoir">Auguste Renoir</a> (1841–1919) visited <a href="/wiki/Beaulieu-sur-Mer" title="Beaulieu-sur-Mer">Beaulieu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grasse" title="Grasse">Grasse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Rapha%C3%ABl,_Var" title="Saint-Raphaël, Var">Saint Raphael</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cannes" title="Cannes">Cannes</a>, before finally settling in <a href="/wiki/Cagnes-sur-Mer" title="Cagnes-sur-Mer">Cagnes-sur-Mer</a> in 1907, where he bought a farm in the hills and built a new house and workshop on the grounds. He continued to paint there until his death in 1919. His house is now a museum.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a> (1869–1954) first visited <a href="/wiki/St._Tropez" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Tropez">St. Tropez</a> in 1904. In 1917 he settled in Nice, first at the Hotel Beau Rivage, then the Hotel de la Mediterranée, then la Villa des Allies in <a href="/wiki/Cimiez" title="Cimiez">Cimiez</a>. In 1921 he lived in an apartment at 1 Place Felix Faure in Nice, next to the flower market and overlooking the sea, where he lived until 1938. He then moved to the Hotel Regina in the hills of Cimiez, above Nice. During World War II he lived in <a href="/wiki/Vence" title="Vence">Vence</a>, then returned to Cimiez, where he died and is buried.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a> (1881–1973) spent each summer from 1919 to 1939 on the <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" class="mw-redirect" title="Côte d'Azur">Côte d'Azur</a>, and moved there permanently in 1946, first at <a href="/wiki/Vallauris" title="Vallauris">Vallauris</a>, then at <a href="/wiki/Mougins" title="Mougins">Mougins</a>, where he spent his last years.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Bonnard" title="Pierre Bonnard">Pierre Bonnard</a> (1867–1947) retired to and died at <a href="/wiki/Le_Cannet" title="Le Cannet">Le Cannet</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a> (1882–1963) painted frequently at <a href="/wiki/L%27Estaque" title="L'Estaque">L'Estaque</a> between 1907 and 1910.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri-Edmond_Cross" title="Henri-Edmond Cross">Henri-Edmond Cross</a> (1856–1910) discovered the Côte d'Azur in 1883 and painted at <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Denis" title="Maurice Denis">Maurice Denis</a> (1870–1943) painted at St. Tropez and <a href="/wiki/Bandol" title="Bandol">Bandol</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain" title="André Derain">André Derain</a> (1880–1954) painted at L'Estaque and <a href="/wiki/Martigues" title="Martigues">Martigues</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raoul_Dufy" title="Raoul Dufy">Raoul Dufy</a> (1877–1953), whose wife was from Nice, painted in <a href="/wiki/Forcalquier" title="Forcalquier">Forcalquier</a>, Marseille and Martigues.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Marquet" title="Albert Marquet">Albert Marquet</a> (1873–1947) painted at Marseille, St. Tropez and L'Estaque.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Monet" title="Claude Monet">Claude Monet</a> (1840–1927) visited Menton, <a href="/wiki/Bordighera" title="Bordighera">Bordighera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juan-les-Pins" title="Juan-les-Pins">Juan-les-Pins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo" title="Monte Carlo">Monte Carlo</a>, Nice, <a href="/wiki/Cannes" title="Cannes">Cannes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beaulieu-sur-Mer" title="Beaulieu-sur-Mer">Beaulieu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Villefranche-sur-Mer" title="Villefranche-sur-Mer">Villefranche</a>, and painted a number of seascapes of <a href="/wiki/Cap_Martin" class="mw-redirect" title="Cap Martin">Cap Martin</a>, near Menton, and at <a href="/wiki/Cap_d%27Antibes" class="mw-redirect" title="Cap d'Antibes">Cap d'Antibes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edvard_Munch" title="Edvard Munch">Edvard Munch</a> (1863–1944) visited and painted in <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo" title="Monte Carlo">Monte Carlo</a> (where he developed a passion for gambling), and rented a villa at <a href="/wiki/Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat" title="Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat">Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat</a> in 1891.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Signac" title="Paul Signac">Paul Signac</a> (1863–1935) visited St. Tropez in 1892, and bought a villa, La Hune, at the foot of citadel in 1897. It was at his villa that his friend, Henri Matisse, painted his famous <i><a href="/wiki/Luxe,_Calme_et_Volupt%C3%A9" title="Luxe, Calme et Volupté">Luxe, Calme et Volupté</a></i>" in 1904. Signac made numerous paintings along the coast.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Deval" title="Pierre Deval">Pierre Deval</a> (1897–1993), a French modernist and figurative painter, lived and worked at the <a href="/wiki/Domaine_d%27Orv%C3%A8s" title="Domaine d'Orvès">Domaine d'Orvès</a> in <a href="/wiki/La_Valette-du-Var" title="La Valette-du-Var">La Valette-du-Var</a> from 1925 until his death in 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Nicolas de Staël">Nicolas de Staël</a> (1914–1955) lived in Nice and <a href="/wiki/Antibes" title="Antibes">Antibes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yves_Klein" title="Yves Klein">Yves Klein</a> (1928–1962), a native of <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a>, is considered an important figure in post-war European art.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacha_Sosno" title="Sacha Sosno">Sacha Sosno</a> (1937–2013) is a French painter and sculptor living and working in Nice.</li></ul> <p><i>Source and Bibliography about artists on the Mediterranean</i> </p> <ul><li><i>Méditerranée de Courbet á Matisse</i>, catalogue of the exhibit at the Grand Palais, Paris from September 2000 to January 2001. Published by the Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Provence" title="Architecture of Provence">Architecture of Provence</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan language</a> and <a href="/wiki/Occitan_literature" title="Occitan literature">Occitan literature</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras.jpg/170px-Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras.jpg/255px-Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras.jpg 2x" data-file-width="296" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras" title="Raimbaut de Vaqueiras">Raimbaut de Vaqueiras</a>, from a collection of <a href="/wiki/Troubadour" title="Troubadour">troubadour</a> songs, <i>BNF Richelieu Manuscrits Français 854</i>, <i>Bibliothèque Nationale Française</i>, Paris</figcaption></figure> <p>Historically, the language spoken in Provence was <a href="/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect" title="Provençal dialect">Provençal</a>, a dialect of the <a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan language</a>, also known as langue d'oc, and closely related to <a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a>. There are several regional variations: <a href="/wiki/Vivaro-alpin" class="mw-redirect" title="Vivaro-alpin">vivaro-alpin</a>, spoken in the Alps, and the Provençal variations of south, including the maritime, the rhoadanien (in the Rhône Valley) and the <a href="/wiki/Ni%C3%A7ois" class="mw-redirect" title="Niçois">Niçois</a> (in Nice). Niçois is the archaic form of Provençal closest to the original language of the <a href="/wiki/Troubadour" title="Troubadour">troubadours</a>, and is sometimes to said to be literary language of its own.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Provençal was widely spoken in Provence until the beginning of the 20th century, when the French government launched an intensive and largely successful effort to replace regional languages with French. Today, Provençal is taught in schools and universities in the region, but is spoken regularly by a small number of people, probably less than 500,000, mostly elderly. </p> <dl><dt>Writers and poets in the Occitan language</dt></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Folquet_de_Marseilla.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Folquet_de_Marseilla.jpg/170px-Folquet_de_Marseilla.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Folquet_de_Marseilla.jpg/255px-Folquet_de_Marseilla.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Folquet_de_Marseilla.jpg 2x" data-file-width="286" data-file-height="417" /></a><figcaption>"Folquet de Marselha" in a 13th-century <a href="/wiki/Chansonnier" title="Chansonnier">chansonnier</a>. Depicted in his episcopal robes.</figcaption></figure> <p>The golden age of <a href="/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Provençal literature">Provençal literature</a>, more correctly called <a href="/wiki/Occitan_literature" title="Occitan literature">Occitan literature</a>, was the 11th century and the 12th century, when the troubadours broke away from classical <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a> and composed romances and love songs in their own vernacular language. Among the most famous troubadours was <a href="/wiki/Folquet_de_Marselha" title="Folquet de Marselha">Folquet de Marselha</a>, whose love songs became famous all over Europe, and who was praised by <a href="/wiki/Dante" class="mw-redirect" title="Dante">Dante</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy" title="Divine Comedy">Divine Comedy</a></i>. In his later years, Folquet gave up poetry to become the Abbot of <a href="/wiki/Thoronet_Abbey" title="Thoronet Abbey">Thoronet Abbey</a>, and then <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Toulouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Toulouse">Bishop of Toulouse</a>, where he fiercely persecuted the <a href="/wiki/Cathars" class="mw-redirect" title="Cathars">Cathars</a>. </p><p>In the middle of the 19th century, there was a literary movement to revive the language, called the <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9librige" title="Félibrige">Félibrige</a>, led by the poet <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral" title="Frédéric Mistral">Frédéric Mistral</a> (1830–1914), who shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. </p><p>Provençal writers and poets who wrote in Occitan include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raimbaut_de_Vaqueiras" title="Raimbaut de Vaqueiras">Raimbaut de Vaqueiras</a> (1180–1207)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Bellaud" title="Louis Bellaud">Louis Bellaud</a> (1543–1588)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Aubanel" title="Théodore Aubanel">Théodore Aubanel</a> (1829–1886)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_d%27Arbaud" title="Joseph d'Arbaud">Joseph d'Arbaud</a> (1874–1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lafont" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Lafont">Robert Lafont</a> (1923–2009)</li></ul> <dl><dt>French authors</dt></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alphonse_Daudet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Alphonse_Daudet.jpg/170px-Alphonse_Daudet.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Alphonse_Daudet.jpg/255px-Alphonse_Daudet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Alphonse_Daudet.jpg/340px-Alphonse_Daudet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="422" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Alphonse_Daudet" title="Alphonse Daudet">Alphonse Daudet</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SidonieGabrielleColette.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/SidonieGabrielleColette.jpg/170px-SidonieGabrielleColette.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/SidonieGabrielleColette.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="220" data-file-height="347" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Colette" title="Colette">Colette</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alphonse_Daudet" title="Alphonse Daudet">Alphonse Daudet</a> (1840–1897) was the best-known French writer from Provence in the 19th century, though he lived mostly in Paris and <a href="/wiki/Champrosay" class="mw-redirect" title="Champrosay">Champrosay</a>. He was best known for his <i><a href="/wiki/Letters_from_My_Windmill" title="Letters from My Windmill">Lettres de mon moulin</a></i> (Letters from My Windmill) (1869) and the <i><a href="/wiki/Tartarin_of_Tarascon" title="Tartarin of Tarascon">Tartarin de Tarascon</a></i> trilogy (1872, 1885, 1890). His short story <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Arl%C3%A9sienne_(novel_and_play)" class="mw-redirect" title="L'Arlésienne (novel and play)">L'Arlésienne</a></i> (1872) was made into a three-act play with <a href="/wiki/L%27Arl%C3%A9sienne_(Bizet)" title="L'Arlésienne (Bizet)">incidental music</a> by <a href="/wiki/Georges_Bizet" title="Georges Bizet">Georges Bizet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Pagnol" title="Marcel Pagnol">Marcel Pagnol</a> (1895–1970), born in Aubagne, is known both as a filmmaker and for his stories of his childhood, <i>Le Château de la Mere</i>, <i>La Gloire de mon Pere</i>, and <i>Le Temps des secrets</i>. He was the first filmmaker to become a member of the <span title="French-language text"><span lang="fr" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise" title="Académie Française">Académie Française</a></span></span> in 1946.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colette" title="Colette">Colette</a> (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) (1873–1954), although she was not from Provence, became particularly attached to <a href="/wiki/Saint-Tropez" title="Saint-Tropez">Saint-Tropez</a>. After World War II, she headed a committee which saw that the village, badly damaged by the war, was restored to its original beauty and character</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Giono" title="Jean Giono">Jean Giono</a> (1895–1970), born in <a href="/wiki/Manosque" title="Manosque">Manosque</a>, wrote about peasant life in Provence, inspired by his imagination and by his vision of ancient Greece.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ar%C3%A8ne" title="Paul Arène">Paul Arène</a> (1843–1896), born in <a href="/wiki/Sisteron" title="Sisteron">Sisteron</a>, wrote about life and the countryside around his home town.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Émigrés, exiles, and expatriates</dt></dl> <p>In the 19th and 20th centuries, the climate and lifestyle of Provence attracted writers almost as much as it attracted painters. It was particularly popular among British, American and Russian writers in the 1920s and 1930s. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a> (1862–1937), bought <a href="/wiki/Castel_Sainte-Claire" title="Castel Sainte-Claire">Castel Sainte-Claire</a> in 1927, on the site of a former convent in the hills above <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a>, where she lived during the winters and springs until her death in 1937.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> (1896–1940) and his wife Zelda first visited the Riviera in 1924, stopping at <a href="/wiki/Hy%C3%A8res" title="Hyères">Hyères</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cannes" title="Cannes">Cannes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo" title="Monte Carlo">Monte Carlo</a>, eventually staying at <a href="/wiki/Saint-Rapha%C3%ABl,_Var" title="Saint-Raphaël, Var">St. Raphaël</a>, where he wrote much of <i>The Great Gatsby</i> and began <i>Tender is the Night</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Bunin" title="Ivan Bunin">Ivan Bunin</a> (1870–1953), the first Russian writer to win the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize for Literature">Nobel Prize for Literature</a>, went to France after the Russian Revolution, set several of his short stories on the <a href="/wiki/French_Riviera" title="French Riviera">Côte d'Azur</a>, and had a house in <a href="/wiki/Grasse" title="Grasse">Grasse</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Maugham" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset Maugham">Somerset Maugham</a> (1874–1965) bought a house, the Villa Mauresque, in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat" title="Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat">Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat</a> in 1928, and, except for the years of World War II, spent much of his time there until his death.</li></ul> <p>Other English-speaking writers who live in or have written about Provence include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Mayle" title="Peter Mayle">Peter Mayle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Drinkwater" title="Carol Drinkwater">Carol Drinkwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lanchester" title="John Lanchester">John Lanchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willa_Cather" title="Willa Cather">Willa Cather</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon" title="Charles Spurgeon">Charles Spurgeon</a> (who spent long periods in <a href="/wiki/Menton" title="Menton">Menton</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield" title="Katherine Mansfield">Katherine Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell" title="Lawrence Durrell">Lawrence Durrell</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Scientists, scholars and prophets</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pytheas" title="Pytheas">Pytheas</a> (4th century BCE) was a geographer and mathematician who lived in the Greek colony of Massalia, now Marseille. He conducted an expedition by sea north around Great Britain to Iceland, and was the first to describe the midnight sun and polar regions.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a> (1304–1374) was an Italian poet and scholar, considered the father of <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanism</a> and one of the first great figures of <a href="/wiki/Italian_literature" title="Italian literature">Italian literature</a>. He spent much of his early life in <a href="/wiki/Avignon" title="Avignon">Avignon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carpentras" title="Carpentras">Carpentras</a> as an official at the Papal court in Avignon, and wrote a famous account of his ascent of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Ventoux" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Ventoux">Mount Ventoux</a> near <a href="/wiki/Aix-en-Provence" title="Aix-en-Provence">Aix-en-Provence</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nostradamus" title="Nostradamus">Nostradamus</a> (1503–1566), a Renaissance apothecary and reputed <a href="/wiki/Clairvoyant" class="mw-redirect" title="Clairvoyant">clairvoyant</a> best known for his alleged prophecies of great world events, was born in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Remy-de-Provence" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Remy-de-Provence">Saint-Remy-de-Provence</a> and lived and died in <a href="/wiki/Salon-de-Provence" title="Salon-de-Provence">Salon-de-Provence</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg/170px-Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg/255px-Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg/340px-Darius_Milhaud_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4319" data-file-height="6268" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a>, born in Provence in 1892</figcaption></figure> <p>Music written about Provence includes: </p> <ul><li>"Di Provenza il mar, il suol", an aria for baritone from <i><a href="/wiki/La_traviata" title="La traviata">La traviata</a></i> (Act 2) by <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a></li> <li>The opera <i><a href="/wiki/Mireille_(opera)" title="Mireille (opera)">Mireille</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gounod" title="Charles Gounod">Charles Gounod</a>, after Frédéric Mistral's poem <a href="/wiki/Mir%C3%A8io" title="Mirèio">Mirèio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Bizet" title="Georges Bizet">Georges Bizet</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Arl%C3%A9sienne_(Bizet)" title="L'Arlésienne (Bizet)">L'Arlésienne</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Incidental_music" title="Incidental music">incidental music</a> to <a href="/wiki/Alphonse_Daudet" title="Alphonse Daudet">Alphonse Daudet</a>'s <a href="/wiki/L%27Arl%C3%A9sienne_(short_story)" title="L'Arlésienne (short story)">eponymous play</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27arlesiana" title="L'arlesiana">L'Arlesiana</a></i>, an opera by <a href="/wiki/Francesco_Cilea" title="Francesco Cilea">Francesco Cilea</a>, based on the play <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Arl%C3%A9sienne_(short_story)" title="L'Arlésienne (short story)">L'Arlésienne</a></i> by Alphonse Daudet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a>: <i>Le Carnaval d'Aix</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Suite_proven%C3%A7ale" title="Suite provençale">Suite provençale</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/La_chemin%C3%A9e_du_roi_Ren%C3%A9" title="La cheminée du roi René">La Cheminée du roi René</a></i>, <i>Suite française</i> (5. Provence), <i>Ouverture méditerranéenne</i></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Tableaux_de_Provence" title="Tableaux de Provence">Tableaux de Provence</a></i> (Pictures of Provence), a suite for alto saxophone and orchestra composed by <a href="/wiki/Paule_Maurice" title="Paule Maurice">Paule Maurice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Reuchsel" title="Eugène Reuchsel">Eugène Reuchsel</a>: <i>Promenades en Provence</i>, <i>Huit Images de Provence</i>, for organ</li> <li>The <i>Suite Provençale</i> for concert band by <a href="/wiki/Jan_Van_der_Roost" title="Jan Van der Roost">Jan Van der Roost</a></li> <li>Two song settings of <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>'s poem "Provence" in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album <i><a href="/wiki/Troika_(Julia_Kogan_album)" title="Troika (Julia Kogan album)">Troika</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cinema">Cinema</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Cinema"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Provence has a special place in the history of the motion picture – one of the first projected motion pictures, <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_train_en_gare_de_La_Ciotat" title="L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat">L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat</a></i> (<i>The Arrival of a Train into La Ciotat Station</i>), a fifty-second silent film, was made by <a href="/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re" title="Auguste and Louis Lumière">Auguste and Louis Lumière</a> at the train station of the coastal town of <a href="/wiki/La_Ciotat" title="La Ciotat">La Ciotat</a>. It was shown to an audience in Paris on 28 December 1895, causing a sensation.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before its commercial premiere in Paris, the film was shown to invited audiences in several French cities, including La Ciotat. It was shown at the Eden Theater in September 1895, making that theatre one of the first motion picture theatres, and the only of the first theatres still showing movies in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Three other of the earliest Lumiere films, <i><a href="/wiki/Partie_de_cartes" title="Partie de cartes">Partie de cartes</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Arroseur_arros%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="L'Arroseur arrosé">l'Arroseur arrosé</a></i> (the first known filmed comedy), and <i><a href="/wiki/Repas_de_b%C3%A9b%C3%A9" title="Repas de bébé">Repas de bébé</a></i>, were also filmed in La Ciotat in 1895, at the Villa du Clos des Plages, the summer residence of the Lumière Brothers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parks_and_gardens">Parks and gardens</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Parks and gardens"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Gardens_of_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Cuisine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The cuisine of Provence is the result of the warm, dry Mediterranean climate; the rugged landscape, good for grazing sheep and goats but, outside of the <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhône Valley">Rhône Valley</a>, poor soil for large-scale agriculture; and the abundant seafood on the coast. </p><p>The basic ingredients are olives and olive oil, garlic, sardines, rockfish, <a href="/wiki/Sea_urchin" title="Sea urchin">sea urchins</a> and octopus, lamb and goat, <a href="/wiki/Chickpea" title="Chickpea">chickpeas</a>, and local fruits, such as grapes, peaches, apricots, strawberries, cherries, and the famous melons of <a href="/wiki/Cavaillon" title="Cavaillon">Cavaillon</a>. </p><p>The fish frequently found on menus in Provence are the <i><a href="/wiki/Red_mullet" title="Red mullet">rouget</a></i>, a small red fish usually eaten grilled, and the <i><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(poisson)" class="extiw" title="fr:Bar (poisson)">loup</a></i> (known elsewhere in France as the <i>bar</i>), often grilled with fennel over the wood of grapevines. </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aioli" title="Aioli">Aïoli</a></i> is a thick emulsion sauce made from olive oil flavoured with crushed garlic. It often accompanies a <i><a href="/wiki/Bourride" title="Bourride">bourride</a></i>, a fish soup, or is served with potatoes and cod (fr. <i>Morue</i>). There are many recipes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bouillabaisse" title="Bouillabaisse">Bouillabaisse</a></i> is the classic seafood dish of Marseille. The traditional version is made with three fish: <a href="/wiki/Scorpionfish" class="mw-redirect" title="Scorpionfish">scorpionfish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sea_robin" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea robin">sea robin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/European_conger" title="European conger">European conger</a>, plus an assortment of other fish and shellfish, such as <a href="/wiki/John_Dory" title="John Dory">John Dory</a>, monkfish, sea urchins, crabs and <a href="/wiki/Sea_spiders" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea spiders">sea spiders</a> included for flavour. The seasoning is as important as the fish, including salt, <a href="/wiki/Chili_pepper" title="Chili pepper">pepper</a>, onion, tomato, saffron, fennel, sage, thyme, bay laurel, sometimes orange peel, and a cup of white wine or cognac. In Marseille the fish and the broth are served separately—the broth is served over thick slices of bread with <i><a href="/wiki/Rouille" title="Rouille">rouille</a></i> (see below).<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brandade" title="Brandade">Brandade</a> de morue</i> is a thick purée of salt cod, olive oil, milk, and garlic, usually spread on toast.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daube" title="Daube">Daube</a> provençale</i> is a stew made with cubed beef braised in wine, vegetables, garlic, and <i><a href="/wiki/Herbes_de_provence" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbes de provence">herbes de provence</a></i>. Variations also call for olives, prunes, and flavouring with duck fat, vinegar, brandy, lavender, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, juniper berries, or orange peel. For best flavour, it is cooked in several stages, and cooled for a day between each stage to allow the flavours to meld together. In the <a href="/wiki/Camargue" title="Camargue">Camargue</a> area of France, bulls killed in the bullfighting festivals are sometimes used for <i>daube</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Escabeche" title="Escabeche">Escabeche</a></i> is another popular seafood dish; the fish (usually sardines) are either poached or fried after being marinated overnight in vinegar or citrus juice.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fougasse_(bread)" title="Fougasse (bread)">Fougasse</a></i> is the traditional bread of Provence, round and flat with holes cut out by the baker. Modern versions are baked with olives or nuts inside.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oursinade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oursinade (page does not exist)">Oursinade</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oursinade" class="extiw" title="fr:Oursinade">fr</a>]</span></i>, a sauce made from sea urchins, often applied to fish. Its name refers to a "tasting" of sea urchins.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pissaladi%C3%A8re" title="Pissaladière">La pissaladière</a></i> is another speciality of Nice. Though it resembles a pizza, it is made with bread dough and the traditional variety never has a tomato topping. It is usually sold in bakeries, and is topped with a bed of onions, lightly browned, and a kind of paste, called <i><a href="/wiki/Pissalat" title="Pissalat">pissalat</a></i>, made from sardines and anchovies, and the small black olives of Nice, called <i><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_de_Nice" class="extiw" title="fr:Olive de Nice">caillettes</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ratatouille" title="Ratatouille">Ratatouille</a></i> is a traditional dish of stewed vegetables, which originated in Nice.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Allioli.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An aioli made of garlic, salt, egg yolk and olive oil"><img alt="An aioli made of garlic, salt, egg yolk and olive oil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Allioli.jpg/338px-Allioli.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Allioli.jpg/507px-Allioli.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Allioli.jpg/675px-Allioli.jpg 2x" data-file-width="921" data-file-height="614" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An <i>aioli</i> made of garlic, salt, egg yolk and olive oil</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bullabessa.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A traditional bouillabaisse from Marseille, soup and fish served separately"><img alt="A traditional bouillabaisse from Marseille, soup and fish served separately" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bullabessa.jpg/270px-Bullabessa.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bullabessa.jpg/405px-Bullabessa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Bullabessa.jpg/540px-Bullabessa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="674" data-file-height="562" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A traditional <i><a href="/wiki/Bouillabaisse" title="Bouillabaisse">bouillabaisse</a></i> from Marseille, soup and fish served separately</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Brandade de morue, a dish of salt cod and olive oil mashed with potatoes or bread in winter"><img alt="Brandade de morue, a dish of salt cod and olive oil mashed with potatoes or bread in winter" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg/300px-Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg/451px-Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg/600px-Brandada_de_Bacalao_-_098.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i><a href="/wiki/Brandade" title="Brandade">Brandade</a> de morue</i>, a dish of salt cod and olive oil mashed with potatoes or bread in winter</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Daube_de_boeuf.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Daube, or Provençal beef stew, cooked in wine"><img alt="Daube, or Provençal beef stew, cooked in wine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Daube_de_boeuf.JPG/300px-Daube_de_boeuf.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Daube_de_boeuf.JPG/451px-Daube_de_boeuf.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Daube_de_boeuf.JPG/600px-Daube_de_boeuf.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i><a href="/wiki/Daube" title="Daube">Daube</a></i>, or Provençal beef stew, cooked in wine</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 218.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 216.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pissaladiera.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pissaladière"><img alt="Pissaladière" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Pissaladiera.jpg/325px-Pissaladiera.jpg" decoding="async" width="217" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Pissaladiera.jpg/488px-Pissaladiera.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Pissaladiera.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="381" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i><a href="/wiki/Pissaladi%C3%A8re" title="Pissaladière">Pissaladière</a></i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ratatouille02.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A bowl of ratatouille with bread"><img alt="A bowl of ratatouille with bread" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ratatouille02.jpg/300px-Ratatouille02.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ratatouille02.jpg/451px-Ratatouille02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Ratatouille02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="375" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A bowl of <i><a href="/wiki/Ratatouille" title="Ratatouille">ratatouille</a></i> with bread</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Socca_in_Nice.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Socca of Nice, also known as La Cade in Toulon or panisse in Marseille"><img alt="Socca of Nice, also known as La Cade in Toulon or panisse in Marseille" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Socca_in_Nice.jpg/300px-Socca_in_Nice.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Socca_in_Nice.jpg/451px-Socca_in_Nice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Socca_in_Nice.jpg/600px-Socca_in_Nice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Socca</i> of Nice, also known as <i>La Cade</i> in <a href="/wiki/Toulon" title="Toulon">Toulon</a> or <i><a href="/wiki/Farinata#French_variations" title="Farinata">panisse</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 266px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 264px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Calisson.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Calissons from Aix"><img alt="Calissons from Aix" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Calisson.jpg/396px-Calisson.jpg" decoding="async" width="264" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Calisson.jpg/594px-Calisson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Calisson.jpg/791px-Calisson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="1878" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i><a href="/wiki/Calissons" class="mw-redirect" title="Calissons">Calissons</a></i> from Aix</div> </li> </ul> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rouille" title="Rouille">Rouille</a></i> is a mayonnaise with red <a href="/wiki/Pimentos" class="mw-redirect" title="Pimentos">pimentos</a>, often spread onto bread and added to fish soups.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farinata" title="Farinata">Socca</a></i> is a speciality of Nice—it is a round flat cake made of chickpea flour and olive oil, like the Italian <i><a href="/wiki/Farinata" title="Farinata">farinata</a></i>. It is baked in the oven in a large pan more than a meter in diameter, then seasoned with pepper and eaten with the fingers while hot. In Toulon <i>socca</i> is known as <i>La Cade</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupe_au_pistou" class="extiw" title="fr:Soupe au pistou">Soupe au pistou</a></i>, either cold or hot, usually made with fresh basil ground and mixed with olive oil, along with summer vegetables, such as white beans, green beans, tomatoes, summer squash, and potatoes.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tapenade" title="Tapenade">Tapenade</a></i> is a relish consisting of pureed or finely chopped olives, capers, and olive oil, usually spread onto bread and served as an hors d'œuvre.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Calisson" title="Calisson">calisson</a></i> is the traditional confection of Aix-en-Provence, made from a base of <a href="/wiki/Almond_paste" title="Almond paste">almond paste</a> flavoured with <i><a href="/wiki/Confit" title="Confit">confit</a></i> of melon and orange. They have been made in Aix-en-Provence since the 17th century.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/French_king_cake" class="mw-redirect" title="French king cake">gâteau des Rois</a></i> is a type of <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a> cake found all over France; the Provençal version is different because it is made of <i><a href="/wiki/Brioche" title="Brioche">brioche</a></i> in a ring, flavoured with the essence of orange flowers and covered with sugar and fruit confit.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tarte_Trop%C3%A9zienne" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarte Tropézienne">Tarte Tropézienne</a></i> is a tart of pastry cream (<i>crème pâtissière</i>) invented by a St. Tropez pastry chef named Alexandre Micka in the 1950s, based on a recipe he brought from his native Poland. In 1955, he was chef on the set of the film <i><a href="/wiki/And_God_Created_Woman_(1956_film)" title="And God Created Woman (1956 film)">And God Created Woman</a></i> when actress <a href="/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot" title="Brigitte Bardot">Brigitte Bardot</a> suggested he name the cake La Tropézienne. It is now found in bakeries throughout the Var.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_desserts" title="Thirteen desserts">Thirteen desserts</a> is a Christmas tradition in Provence, when thirteen different dishes, representing Jesus and the twelve apostles, and each with a different significance, are served after the large Christmas meal.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herbes_de_Provence" title="Herbes de Provence">Herbes de Provence</a></i> (or Provençal herbs) are a mixture of dried herbs from Provence which are commonly used in Provençal cooking.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wines">Wines</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Wines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Provence_wine" title="Provence wine">Provence wine</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Provence_wine" title="Provence wine">wines of Provence</a> were probably introduced into Provence around 600 BC by the Greek <a href="/wiki/Phoceans" class="mw-redirect" title="Phoceans">Phoceans</a> who founded Marseille and Nice. After the Roman occupation, in 120 BC the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Roman Senate</a> forbade the growing of vines and olives in Provence, to protect the profitable trade in exporting Italian wines, but in the late Roman empire retired soldiers from <a href="/wiki/Roman_Legions" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Legions">Roman Legions</a> settled in Provence and were allowed to grow grapes.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Romans complained about the competition from and poor quality of the wines of Provence. In the 1st century AD the Roman poet <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> condemned the wines of Marseille as "terrible poisons, and never sold at a good price."<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg/220px-Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg/330px-Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg/440px-Clos_des_Tourelles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="3008" /></a><figcaption>Wine estate near <a href="/wiki/Vaison-la-Romaine" title="Vaison-la-Romaine">Vaison-la-Romaine</a></figcaption></figure> <p>As recently as the 1970s the wines of Provence had the reputation of being rather ordinary: In 1971 wine critic <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Johnson_(wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Johnson (wine)">Hugh Johnson</a> wrote: "The whites are dry and can lack the acidity to be refreshing; the reds are straightforward, strong and a trifle dull; it is usually the <a href="/wiki/Ros%C3%A9" title="Rosé">rosés</a>, often orange-tinted, which have most appeal." He added, "Cassis and Bandol distinguish themselves for their white and red wines respectively. Cassis (no relation of the blackcurrant syrup) is livelier than the run of Provençal white wine, and Bandol leads the red in much the same way."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since that time, cultivation of poorer varieties has been reduced and new technologies and methods have improved the quality considerably. </p><p>The wines of Provence are grown under demanding conditions; hot weather and abundant sunshine (Toulon, near Bandol, has the most sunshine of any city in France) which ripens the grapes quickly; little rain, and the mistral. </p><p>The great majority of the wines produced in Provence are rosés. The most characteristic grape is <a href="/wiki/Mourv%C3%A8dre" title="Mourvèdre">mourvèdre</a>, used most famously in the red wines of Bandol. Cassis is the only area in Provence known for its white wines. </p><p>There are three regional classifications (<a href="/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%C3%B4l%C3%A9e" title="Appellation d'origine contrôlée">Appellation d'origine contrôlée</a> (AOC)) in Provence: </p> <ul><li><i>AOC Côtes de Provence</i> dates to 1997, though these wines were recognised in the 17th and 18th centuries, notably by <a href="/wiki/Madame_de_S%C3%A9vign%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Madame de Sévigné">Madame de Sévigné</a>, who reported the habits and preferred wines of the Court of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a>. The title Côtes de Provence was already in use in 1848, but production was nearly destroyed by <i><a href="/wiki/Phylloxera" title="Phylloxera">phylloxera</a></i> later in that century, and took decades to recover. The appellation today covers 84 communes in Var and <a href="/wiki/Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Bouches-du-Rhône">Bouches-du-Rhône</a>, and one in <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a>. The principal grapes used in the red wines are <a href="/wiki/Grenache" title="Grenache">grenache</a>, mourvèdre, <a href="/wiki/Cinsault" class="mw-redirect" title="Cinsault">cinsault</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tibouren" title="Tibouren">tibouren</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Syrah" title="Syrah">syrah</a>. For the white wines, <a href="/wiki/Clairette_blanche" title="Clairette blanche">clairette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vermentino" title="Vermentino">vermentino</a>, <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9millon" title="Sémillon">sémillon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ugni_blanc" class="mw-redirect" title="Ugni blanc">ugni blanc</a>. The appellation covers 20,300 hectares (50,000 acres). 80 percent of the production is rosé wine, fifteen percent is red wine, and 5 percent white wine.</li> <li><i>AOC Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence</i> was classified in 1985. The wines of Aix were originally planted by veterans of the Roman legions in the 1st century BC, and were promoted in the 15th century by <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="René I of Naples">René I of Naples</a>, the last ruler of Provence. Most vineyards were destroyed by <i>phylloxera</i> in the 19th century, and very slowly were reconstituted. The principal grapes for red wines and rosés are grenache, mourvèdre, cinsault, syrah, <a href="/wiki/Counoise" title="Counoise">counoise</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carignan" title="Carignan">carignan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cabernet_sauvignon" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabernet sauvignon">cabernet sauvignon</a>. White wines are made mainly with <a href="/wiki/Bourboulenc" title="Bourboulenc">bourboulenc</a>, clairette, <a href="/wiki/Grenache_blanc" title="Grenache blanc">grenache blanc</a>, and vermentino. There are 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres) in production. 70 percent of the wines are rosés, 25 percent red wines, and 5 percent white wines.</li> <li><i>AOC Coteaux varois en Provence</i> is a recent AOC in Provence. The name Coteaux Varois was first used in 1945, and became an AOC in 1993. The name was changed to Couteaux Varois en Provence in 2005. The red wines principally use grenache, cinsaut, mourvèdre, and syrah grapes. White wines use clairette, grenache blanc, rolle blanc, sémillon, and ugni blanc. There are 2,200 hectares (5,400 acres) in this AOL. It produces 80 percent rosés, 17 percent red wines, and 3 percent white wines.</li></ul> <p>In addition, there are five local classifications (<i>Les appellations locales</i>): </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bandol_AOC" class="mw-redirect" title="Bandol AOC">Bandol AOC</a>, grown in the department of Var on the coast west of Toulon, mostly around the villages of <a href="/wiki/La_Cadiere_d%27Azur" class="mw-redirect" title="La Cadiere d'Azur">La Cadiere d'Azur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Castellet" class="mw-redirect" title="Castellet">Castellet</a>. Wines of this appellation must have at least fifty percent mourvèdre grapes, though most have considerably more. Other grapes used are grenache, cinsault, syrah, and carignan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/AOC_Cassis" class="mw-redirect" title="AOC Cassis">AOC Cassis</a>, made near the coastal town of <a href="/wiki/Cassis" title="Cassis">Cassis</a>, between Toulon and Marseille, was the first wine in Provence to be classified as an AOC in 1936, and is best known for its white wines. Wines from Cassis are described in French literature as early as the 12th century. The grapes most commonly used are <a href="/wiki/Marsanne" title="Marsanne">marsanne</a>, clairette, <a href="/wiki/Ugni_blanc" class="mw-redirect" title="Ugni blanc">ugni blanc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sauvignon_blanc" title="Sauvignon blanc">sauvignon blanc</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bourboulenc" title="Bourboulenc">Bourboulenc</a>. Rosé wines use grenache, carignan, and mourvèdre.</li> <li>AOC <a href="/wiki/Bellet" title="Bellet">Bellet</a>; at the time of the French Revolution, the little town of Saint Roman de Bellet (now part of Nice) was the center of an important wine region. Production was nearly destroyed by <i>phylloxera</i> and by the two wars, and only in 1946 was the region again producing fully. It was classified as an AOC in 1941. Today the region is one of the smallest in France; just 47 hectares. The grapes are grown on terraces along the left bank of the Var River, east of the town. The major grapes grown for red wines and rosés are <a href="/wiki/Braquet" title="Braquet">braquet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folle" class="mw-redirect" title="Folle">Folle</a>, and cinsault, blended sometimes with grenache. For white wines, the major grapes grown are <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rolle_blanc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rolle blanc (page does not exist)">rolle blanc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roussane" class="mw-redirect" title="Roussane">roussane</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spagnol&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spagnol (page does not exist)">spagnol</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mayorquin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mayorquin (page does not exist)">mayorquin</a>; the secondary grapes are clairette, <a href="/wiki/Bourboulenc" title="Bourboulenc">bourboulenc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chardonnay" title="Chardonnay">chardonnay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pignerol" class="mw-redirect" title="Pignerol">pignerol</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Muscat_(grape_and_wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscat (grape and wine)">muscat</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palette_AOC" title="Palette AOC">Palette AOC</a>; the little village of <a href="/wiki/Le_Tholonet" title="Le Tholonet">Palete</a>, four kilometres east of Aix-en-Provence, has long been famous for the production of a <a href="/wiki/Vin_cuit" title="Vin cuit">vin cuit</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Fortified_wine" title="Fortified wine">fortified wine</a>, used in the traditional Provence Christmas dessert, the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_desserts" title="Thirteen desserts">Thirteen desserts</a>, and the Christmas cake called <i>pompo à l'oli</i>, or the olive-oil pump. This production was nearly abandoned, but is now being recreated. The main grapes for red wine are grenache, mourvèdre, and <a href="/wiki/Cinsaut" title="Cinsaut">cinsaut</a>; for the white wines clairette.</li> <li>AOC <a href="/wiki/Les_Baux_de_Provence" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Baux de Provence">Les Baux de Provence</a>; was established as an AOC for red and rosé wines in 1995.</li></ul> <p>South of Avignon, it occupies the north and south slopes of the <a href="/wiki/Alpilles" title="Alpilles">Alpilles</a>, up to an altitude of 400 metres (1,300 ft), and extends about thirty kilometres from east to west. The principal grapes for the red wines are grenache, mourvèdre, and syrah. For the rosés, the main grapes are syrah and cinsault. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pastis">Pastis</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Pastis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pastis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Pastis.jpg/170px-Pastis.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Pastis.jpg/255px-Pastis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Pastis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="385" /></a><figcaption>A glass of diluted <a href="/wiki/Pastis" title="Pastis">pastis</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boule.kugel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Boule.kugel.jpg/220px-Boule.kugel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Boule.kugel.jpg/330px-Boule.kugel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Boule.kugel.jpg/440px-Boule.kugel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="384" /></a><figcaption>Cochonnet next to the boule</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Pastis" title="Pastis">Pastis</a> is the traditional liqueur of Provence, flavoured with <a href="/wiki/Anise" title="Anise">anise</a> and typically containing 40–45% alcohol by volume. When <a href="/wiki/Absinthe" title="Absinthe">absinthe</a> was banned in France in 1915, the major absinthe producers (then <a href="/wiki/Pernod_Fils" class="mw-redirect" title="Pernod Fils">Pernod Fils</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ricard" title="Paul Ricard">Ricard</a>, who have since merged as <a href="/wiki/Pernod_Ricard" title="Pernod Ricard">Pernod Ricard</a>) reformulated their drink without the banned <a href="/wiki/Absinthe_wormwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Absinthe wormwood">wormwood</a> and with more aniseed flavour, coming from <a href="/wiki/Star_anise" class="mw-redirect" title="Star anise">star anise</a>, sugar and a lower alcohol content, creating pastis. It is usually drunk diluted with water, which it turns a cloudy color. It is especially popular in and around Marseille. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9tanque" title="Pétanque">Pétanque</a>, a form of <a href="/wiki/Boules" title="Boules">boules</a>, is a popular sport played in towns and villages all over Provence. </p><p>A more athletic version of the sport called <i>jeu provençal</i> was popular throughout Provence in the 19th century – this version is featured in the novels and memoires of Marcel Pagnol; players ran three steps before throwing the ball, and it resembled at times a form of ballet. The modern version of the game was created in 1907 at the town of <a href="/wiki/La_Ciotat" title="La Ciotat">La Ciotat</a> by a former champion of <i>jeu provençal </i> named Jules Hugues, who was unable to play because of his rheumatism. He devised a new set of rules where the field was much smaller, and players did not run before throwing the ball, but remained inside a small circle with their feet together. This gave the game its name, <i>lei peds tancats</i>, in the <a href="/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect" title="Provençal dialect">Provençal dialect</a> of <a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a>, 'feet together'. The first tournament was played in La Ciotat in 1910. The first steel boules were introduced in 1927. </p><p>The object is to throw a ball (boule) as close as possible to a smaller ball, called the cochonnet, (this kind of throw is called to <i>faire le point</i> or <i>pointer</i>); or to knock away a boules of the opponent that is close to the cochonnet (this is called to <i>tirer</i>). Players compete one-on-one (<i>tête-à-tête</i>), in teams of two (<i>doublettes</i>) or teams of three (<i>triplettes</i>). The object is to accumulate thirteen points. The point belongs to the ball the closest to the cochonnet. A player pitches balls until he can regain the point (<i>reprenne le point</i>) by having his ball closest to the cochonnet. Each ball from a single team, if there are no other balls from the other team closer to the cochonnet, counts as a point. The points are counted when all of the balls have been tossed by both teams.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genetics">Genetics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Genetics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A recent genetic study in 2011 analysed 51 southern French individuals from Provence and 89 <a href="/wiki/Greek_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek people">Anatolian Greek</a> subjects whose paternal ancestry derives from <a href="/wiki/Smyrna" title="Smyrna">Smyrna</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/%C4%B0zmir" title="İzmir">İzmir</a> in Turkey) and Asia Minor <a href="/wiki/Phokaia" class="mw-redirect" title="Phokaia">Phokaia</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Fo%C3%A7a" title="Foça">Foça</a> in Turkey), the ancestral embarkation port to the 6th century BCE ancient Greek colonies of Massalia (Marseilles) and Alalie (Aleria, Corsica). The study found that 17% of the <a href="/wiki/Y-chromosomes" class="mw-redirect" title="Y-chromosomes">Y-chromosomes</a> of Provence may be attributed to <a href="/wiki/Greek_colonisation" title="Greek colonisation">Greek colonisation</a>. The study also concluded that "estimates of colonial Greek vs indigenous Celto-Ligurian demography predict a maximum of a 10% Greek contribution, suggesting a Greek male elite-dominant input into the Iron Age Provence population."<sup id="cite_ref-Chiaroni,_Jacques_2011_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chiaroni,_Jacques_2011-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery_of_Provence">Gallery of Provence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Gallery of Provence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 114.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 112.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marseille_hafen.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The old port of Marseille"><img alt="The old port of Marseille" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Marseille_hafen.jpg/169px-Marseille_hafen.jpg" decoding="async" width="113" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Marseille_hafen.jpg/253px-Marseille_hafen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Marseille_hafen.jpg/337px-Marseille_hafen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The old port of Marseille</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 203.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 201.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Place Republique in Arles"><img alt="Place Republique in Arles" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG/302px-France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG" decoding="async" width="202" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG/454px-France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG/604px-France_Arles_Place_Republique.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1692" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Place Republique in <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Moustiers_Sainte_Marie_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, in Upper Provence"><img alt="Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, in Upper Provence" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Provence_street.jpg/169px-Provence_street.jpg" decoding="async" width="113" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Provence_street.jpg/253px-Provence_street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Provence_street.jpg/337px-Provence_street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Provençal country road lined with <a href="/wiki/Platanus" title="Platanus">plane trees</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Camargueflamingos.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flamingos in the Camargue"><img alt="Flamingos in the Camargue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Camargueflamingos.jpg/300px-Camargueflamingos.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Sisteron_2004.jpg/600px-Sisteron_2004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Sisteron" title="Sisteron">Sisteron</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Avant_l%27orage.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pont Saint-Bénézet at sunset"><img alt="Pont Saint-Bénézet at sunset" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Avant_l%27orage.jpg/338px-Avant_l%27orage.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Avant_l%27orage.jpg/508px-Avant_l%27orage.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Avant_l%27orage.jpg/677px-Avant_l%27orage.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2104" data-file-height="1400" /></a></span></div> <div 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title="Help:IPA/Occitan">[pʀuˈvɛnsɔ]</a></span>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Petit_Robert_1988-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Petit_Robert_1988_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Petit_Robert_1988_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Le Petit Robert, Dictionnaire Universel des Noms Propres</i> (1988).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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(1990). "Introduction". <i>Histoire de la Provence</i> (in French). Toulouse: Editions Privat.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction&rft.btitle=Histoire+de+la+Provence&rft.place=Toulouse&rft.pub=Editions+Privat&rft.date=1990&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://benvengudo.com/blog/en/a-history-of-provence/">A History of Provence</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Max Escalon de Fonton, <i>L'Homme avant l'histoire</i>, article in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, edited by Edouard Baratier, Éditions Privat, Toulouse, 1990. Pg. 14 See also Henry de Lumley, <i>La Grand Histoire des premiers hommes européens</i>, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Max Escalon de Fonton, <i>L'Homme avant l'histoire</i>, pg. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jardin-exotique.mc">"Site of the Exotic Garden of Monaco, and the Museum of Archeology"</a>. Jardin-exotique.mc<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Palanque</a>, <i>Ligures, Celts et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>. Pg. 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5, section 28</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J. Cited by R. Palanque, <i>Ligures, Celts et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>. Pg. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-R._Palanque,_Pg._34-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-R._Palanque,_Pg._34_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-R._Palanque,_Pg._34_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-R._Palanque,_Pg._34_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">J. R. Palanque, <i>Ligures, Celts et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>. Pg. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J. R. Palanque, <i>Ligures, Celts et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>. Pg. 34</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J.R. Palanque, <i>Ligures, Celtes et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, pg. 39.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-R._Palanque,_pg._41-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-R._Palanque,_pg._41_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-R._Palanque,_pg._41_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">R. Palanque, <i>Ligures, Celtes et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, pg. 41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">R. Palanque, <i>Ligures, Celtes et Grecs</i>, in <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, pg. 44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bastié, <i>Histoire de la</i> <i>Provence</i>, pg. 9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aldo Bastié, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, (pg. 13.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rogercollins-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rogercollins_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rogercollins_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCollins,_Roger1989" class="citation book cs1">Collins, Roger (1989). <i>The Arab Conquest of Spain 710–797</i>. Oxford, UK / Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. p. 92. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-19405-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-631-19405-3"><bdi>0-631-19405-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Arab+Conquest+of+Spain+710%E2%80%93797&rft.place=Oxford%2C+UK+%2F+Cambridge%2C+USA&rft.pages=92&rft.pub=Blackwell&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-631-19405-3&rft.au=Collins%2C+Roger&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, pg. 16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bastiė, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNoble2013" class="citation book cs1">Noble; et al. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Td4WAAAAQBAJ&q=1309%2C+Pope+Clement+V+avignon&pg=PA304"><i>Cengage Advantage Books: Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries</i></a> (7 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 304. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781285661537" title="Special:BookSources/9781285661537"><bdi>9781285661537</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cengage+Advantage+Books%3A+Western+Civilization%3A+Beyond+Boundaries&rft.pages=304&rft.edition=7&rft.pub=Cengage+Learning&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=9781285661537&rft.au=Noble&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTd4WAAAAQBAJ%26q%3D1309%252C%2BPope%2BClement%2BV%2Bavignon%26pg%3DPA304&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bastiė, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, p. 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bastié,_pg._35-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bastié,_pg._35_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bastié,_pg._35_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bastié, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, (pg. 35)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-isa-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-isa_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEtienne-Bugnot" class="citation cs2">Etienne-Bugnot, Isabelle, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180929094251/http://www.historyofquilts.com/french_quilt_history.html"><i>Quilting in France: The French Traditions</i></a>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historyofquilts.com/french_quilt_history.html">the original</a> on 29 September 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 May</span> 2010</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Quilting+in+France%3A+The+French+Traditions&rft.aulast=Etienne-Bugnot&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyofquilts.com%2Ffrench_quilt_history.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark Jarrett. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QTImBAAAQBAJ&dq=napoleon+avoided+provence+on+his+return+from+Elba&pg=PA158"><i>The Congress of Vienna: War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon</i></a> I.B.Tauris, 30 June 2013. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0857735705" title="Special:BookSources/0857735705">0857735705</a> p 158</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Edward Baratier, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, 6–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_climate" title="Mediterranean climate">Mediterranean climate</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-infoclimat-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-infoclimat_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/index.php?s=07650&aff=details">"Précipitations à Marseille"</a> (in French). Infoclimat.fr<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Pr%C3%A9cipitations+%C3%A0+Marseille&rft.pub=Infoclimat.fr&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoclimat.fr%2Fclimatologie%2Findex.php%3Fs%3D07650%26aff%3Ddetails&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in French)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/index.php?s=07660&aff=details">Precipitations a Toulon</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Météo-France. site</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in French)</span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/index.php?s=07690&aff=details">"Infoclimat – Météo en temps réel – observations previsions climatologie forum"</a> (in French). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Infoclimat+%E2%80%93+M%C3%A9t%C3%A9o+en+temps+r%C3%A9el+%E2%80%93+observations+previsions+climatologie+forum&rft.pub=Infoclimat.fr&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoclimat.fr%2Fclimatologie%2Findex.php%3Fs%3D07690%26aff%3Ddetails&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/index.php?s=07588&aff=details">"Infoclimat – Météo en temps réel – observations previsions climatologie forum"</a> (in French). Infoclimat.fr<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Infoclimat+%E2%80%93+M%C3%A9t%C3%A9o+en+temps+r%C3%A9el+%E2%80%93+observations+previsions+climatologie+forum&rft.pub=Infoclimat.fr&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoclimat.fr%2Fclimatologie%2Findex.php%3Fs%3D07588%26aff%3Ddetails&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/index.php?s=07579&aff=details">"source: infoclimat.fr précipitations à Orange"</a> (in French). Infoclimat.fr<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=source%3A+infoclimat.fr+pr%C3%A9cipitations+%C3%A0+Orange&rft.pub=Infoclimat.fr&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoclimat.fr%2Fclimatologie%2Findex.php%3Fs%3D07579%26aff%3Ddetails&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aldo Bastié, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, Editions Ouest-France, 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fixot, Michel, and Sauze, Elisabeth, 2004: <i>La cathédrale Saint-Léonce et le groupe épiscopale de Fréjus</i>. Monum, Éditions du patrimoine.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The cult of Mary Magdalene was very important in medieval Provence; What was believed to be her sarcophagus had been found in a Gallo-Roman crypt in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume" title="Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume">Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume</a> in 1279, and the construction of a large church, the Basilica Sainte Marie-Madeleine, was begun on the spot in 1295.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See exhibition "Van Gogh – Monticelli" in Marseille's <i>Centre de la Vieille Charité</i>, Sep 2008 – Jan 2009 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111209181413/http://www.rmn.fr/Van-Gogh-et-Monticelli-Centre-de">"Exposition "Van Gogh et Monticelli Centre de la vieille charité, Marseille" : [RMNGP]"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rmn.fr/Van-Gogh-et-Monticelli-Centre-de">the original</a> on 9 December 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 December</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Exposition+%22Van+Gogh+et+Monticelli+Centre+de+la+vieille+charit%C3%A9%2C+Marseille%22+%3A+%26%2391%3BRMNGP%26%2393%3B&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmn.fr%2FVan-Gogh-et-Monticelli-Centre-de&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">from the article "Provence" in the French-language Wikipedia.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Atlantic Brief Lives, A Biographical Companion to the Arts</i>, pg. 204, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1971.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B005USB24A">"Troika: Russia's westerly poetry in three orchestral song cycles"</a>, Rideau Rouge Records, ASIN: B005USB24A, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">*<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk">Complete film</a> on YouTube <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.institut-lumiere.org/">The Lumiere Institute, Lyon, France</a></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"...Onze autres projections en France (Paris, Lyon, La Ciotat, Grenoble) et en Belgique (Bruxelles, Louvain) auront lieu avec un programme de films plus étoffé durant l'année 1895, avant la première commerciale du 28 décembre, remportant à chaque fois le même succès." From the site of the Institut Lumiere in Lyon. see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.institut-lumiere.org/">Site of the Institut Lumiere</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the Michelin Guide Vert, Côte d'Azur, pg.31 (in French), for this classic version. There are countless others.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOlney1994" class="citation book cs1">Olney, Richard (1994). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lulusprovencalta00olne/page/83"><i>Lulu's Provenc̜al Table : the exuberant food and wine from Domaine Tempier Vineyard</i></a></span>. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lulusprovencalta00olne/page/83">83–85</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-016922-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-016922-2"><bdi>0-06-016922-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lulu%27s+Provenc%CC%9Cal+Table+%3A+the+exuberant+food+and+wine+from+Domaine+Tempier+Vineyard&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=83-85&rft.pub=HarperCollins+Publishers&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-06-016922-2&rft.aulast=Olney&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flulusprovencalta00olne%2Fpage%2F83&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131102152324/http://www.nice-cooking.com/fr/header.php?id=6%2F">"Link to the traditional recipe for pissaladiëre(in French)"</a>. Nice-cooking.com. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nice-cooking.com/fr/header.php?id=6/">the original</a> on 2 November 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Link+to+the+traditional+recipe+for+pissaladi%C3%ABre%28in+French%29&rft.pub=Nice-cooking.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nice-cooking.com%2Ffr%2Fheader.php%3Fid%3D6%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ratatouille. <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>. 2nd edition.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVanel2006" class="citation web cs1">Vanel, Lucy (23 April 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com/2006/04/lail-est-arriv-soupe-au-pistou.html">"Lucy's Kitchen Notebook. L'Ail est Arrivé! – Soupe au Pistou"</a>. Kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lucy%27s+Kitchen+Notebook.+L%27Ail+est+Arriv%C3%A9%21+%E2%80%93+Soupe+au+Pistou&rft.pub=Kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com&rft.date=2006-04-23&rft.aulast=Vanel&rft.aufirst=Lucy&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fkitchen-notebook.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F04%2Flail-est-arriv-soupe-au-pistou.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Book III Chapter 9 of <i>De Republica</i>, quoted in <i>Histore sociale et culturelle du Vin</i>, Gilbert Garrier, Larousse, 1998.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martial, <i>Epigrams</i> X-36, cited by Garrier, op.cit.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hugh Johnson, <i>The World Atlas of Wine</i>, Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1971</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marco Foyot, Alain Dupuy, Louis Dalmas, <i>Pétanque – Technique,Tactique, Entrainement</i> Robert Laffont, Paris 1984. This seems to be the definitive book on the subject, co-written by pétanque champion Marco Foyot.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chiaroni,_Jacques_2011-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Chiaroni,_Jacques_2011_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChiaroni,_Jacques2011" class="citation journal cs1">Chiaroni, Jacques (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068964">"The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean"</a>. <i>BMC Evolutionary Biology</i>. <b>11</b> (1): 69. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011BMCEE..11...69K">2011BMCEE..11...69K</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1186%2F1471-2148-11-69">10.1186/1471-2148-11-69</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/PMC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMC (identifier)">PMC</a> <span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068964">3068964</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21401952">21401952</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2787435">2787435</a>. <q>The process of Greek colonization of the central and western Mediterranean during the Archaic and Classical Eras has been understudied from the perspective of population genetics. To investigate the Y chromosomal demography of Greek colonization in the western Mediterranean, Y-chromosome data consisting of 29 YSNPs and 37 YSTRs were compared from 51 subjects from Provence, 58 subjects from Smyrna and 31 subjects whose paternal ancestry derives from Asia Minor Phokaia, the ancestral embarkation port to the 6th century BCE Greek colonies of Massalia (Marseille) and Alalie (Aleria, Corsica). Results 19% of the Phokaian and 12% of the Smyrnian representatives were derived for haplogroup E-V13, characteristic of the Greek and Balkan mainland, while 4% of the Provençal, 4.6% of East Corsican and 1.6% of West Corsican samples were derived for E-V13. An admixture analysis estimated that 17% of the Y-chromosomes of Provence may be attributed to Greek colonization. Using the following putative Neolithic Anatolian lineages: J2a-DYS445 = 6, G2a-M406 and J2a1b1-M92, the data predict a 0% Neolithic contribution to Provence from Anatolia. Estimates of colonial Greek vs. indigenous Celto-Ligurian demography predict a maximum of a 10% Greek contribution, suggesting a Greek male elite-dominant input into the Iron Age Provence population.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BMC+Evolutionary+Biology&rft.atitle=The+coming+of+the+Greeks+to+Provence+and+Corsica%3A+Y-chromosome+models+of+archaic+Greek+colonization+of+the+western+Mediterranean&rft.volume=11&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=69&rft.date=2011&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC3068964%23id-name%3DPMC&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A2787435%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2011BMCEE..11...69K&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F21401952&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1186%2F1471-2148-11-69&rft.au=Chiaroni%2C+Jacques&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC3068964&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvence" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li>Edouard Baratier (editor), <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, Editions Privat, Toulouse, 1990 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-7089-1649-1" title="Special:BookSources/2-7089-1649-1">2-7089-1649-1</a>)</li> <li>Aldo Bastié, <i>Histoire de la Provence</i>, Editions Ouest-France, 2001.</li> <li>Michel Vergé-Franceschi, <i>Toulon – Port Royal (1481–1789)</i>. Tallandier: Paris, 2002.</li> <li>Cyrille Roumagnac, <i>L'Arsenal de Toulon et la Royale</i>, Editions Alan Sutton, 2001</li> <li>Jim Ring, Riviera, <i>The Rise and Fall of the Côte d'Azur</i>, John Murray Publishers, London 2004</li> <li>Marco Foyot, Alain Dupuy, Louis Dalmas, <i>Pétanque – Technique, Tactique, Entrainement</i>, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1984.</li> <li>Denizeau, Gerard, <i>Histoire Visuelle des Monuments de France</i>, Larousse, 2003</li> <li>LeMoine, Bertrand, <i>Guide d'architecture, France, 20e siecle</i>, Picard, Paris 2000</li> <li>Jean-Louis André, Jean-François Mallet, Jean daniel Sudres, <i>Cuisines des pays de France</i>, Éditions du Chêne, Hachette Livre, Paris 2001</li> <li>Prosper Mérimée, <i>Notes de voyages</i>, ed. Pierre-Marie Auzas (1971)</li> <li>Martin Garrett, <i>Provence: a Cultural History</i> (2006)</li> <li>James Pope-Hennessy, <i>Aspects of Provence</i> (1988)</li> <li>Laura Raison (ed.), <i>The South of France: an Anthology</i> (1985)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Provence&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 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