French artist Émile Friant

Émile Friant is a French artist whose name is little known today. Yet he was a painter of immense and widely acclaimed talent in his own era, being awarded the highly prestigious Legion of Honour when he was just 25 years old in 1888. Friant’s painting from that year, Les Amoureux (or The Lovers), is a characteristic expression of his immense talent.

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Provence, the First Wine Region of France

Wine has been made in Provence for a very long time. Grapevines were first planted in 600 B.C. by the Greeks who founded the city of Marseille. Later, the Romans planted vines in practically every corner of France—along the Rhône Valley, in Burgundy, in Bordeaux, and elsewhere. But it all started in Provence.

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