The writer on his lifelong passion for the 'real France' and which, according to Julian Barnes, '... the official 'France' - northern, bureaucratic, centralising - had long ago conquered and attempted to dismantle and to strip of its language: Provence'; illustrations by [Janice] Biala, the author's partner during the 1930s.
![The Benefactress by [von Arnim, Elizabeth]](/images/books/cover/51651_2022420142911_the_benefactress.jpg "The Benefactress by [von Arnim, Elizabeth]")
