Lettres de mon moulin (letters from my windmill) by iaacf

Photography • Landscape • posted on Aug 05, 2010

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From Wikipedia: Lettres de mon moulin is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in it's entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as Le Figaro and L'Evénement as early as 1865. The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria. Considered to be light-hearted, and often a bit tongue-in-cheek, the stories vary from day-to-day events in southern France to Provençal folk-tales, and often feature professions and faunal references characteristic of Provence. Letters From My Windmill is sometimes considered to be Daudet's most important work. It is cherished by many French, particularly in the South, for the picture it paints of the local culture. A French-language movie was made in 1954 by Marcel Pagnol composed of three stories: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" and "The Secret Of Master Cornille".