From the backstreets of Paris in Perfume to sun-baked Provence in Jean de Florette, visit France through great fiction
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I’ve written about France for The Guardian for more than a decade and have been visiting for longer: since my days as a teenage au pair and later a language student. I love it mainly for its food and wine, but also for its combative attitude to politics, its love of good living, elegant cities and variety of land- and seascapes. We can still visit it through the pages of literature. So, here are my personal top 10 novels that give une vĂ©ritable saveur of the country almost nine million British people visited last year.
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