A SPRING WALK IN PROVENCE

PREFACE

The following pages owe a considerable debt towhat others who have been over the same groundhave written. Mr. T. A. Cook's[1] "Old Provence"(London: Rivington's, 2 vols.) is a mostvaluable record of the history of the countryas it attaches to the innumerable places of interestto be visited, and his taste and knowledgewhen brought to bear upon its architectural remainshave greatly enhanced my own appreciationof those rich treasures. I know of no book,either in French or English, from which a visitorto Provence could get so much to supplementhis own observation, and I have made constantuse of it. To Mr. Thomas Okey's[2] "Avignon"in Dent's "Mediæval Towns" series, I also owea great debt of gratitude. The Rev. SabineBaring-Gould's "In Troubadour Land" (London:W. H. Allen), though slighter than thosetwo works, contains much interesting information.Mistral's "Mes Origines" (Paris: LibrairePlon), translated from the Provençal, is of courseinvaluable for its pictures of Provençal life, andfrom that book and from M. Paul Mariéton's[viii]"La Terre Provençale" (Paris: Ollendorf) onecan get the best information about the movementof the Félibrige, which has done so muchto revivify the old life of Provence. A gooddeal of desultory information is afforded by M.Louis de Laincel's "La Provence" (Paris:Oudin), and some of the stories that linger onProvençal soil are well told in M. Charles-Roux's"Légendes de Provence"

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