Emile is in a cemetery, designing his own tomb. In a postbox by the gate, he discovers an envelope addressed to a Mlle Veronique Champourcieux. He is puzzled, but, he purchases a stamp and posts the letter. When the body of this same Mlle Veronique is later discovered, Commissaire Laviolette has to [...]

From one of Frances's leading crime writers, whose The Messengers of Death was named a Publishers Weekly Best Mystery of 2008, comes this exceptional classic mystery which was once singled out as being France's Best Novel of the YearAt the turn of the century, in a remote inn in Upper Provence, a fa[...]

The remarkable rags-to-riches tale of Olivier Baussan and the roadside soap stand that became L'Occitane, one of the world's most successful purveyors of natural fragrances. Founded in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, the now world-renowned fragrance company L'Occitane (which means "a woman of Provence" in [...]