“À Valence, le Midi commence!” is a saying of the French, though this Rhône-side city, the Julia-Valentia of Roman times, is in full view of the snow-clad

I was in Rome. For ten days with a sirocco wind the rains had descended, as surely they had never come down since the windows of heaven were opened at the Flood

In "In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc," S. Baring-Gould deftly intertwines travel narrative with historical and literary exploration, empha