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Salon-de-Provence
Salon-de-Provence , town (1990 pop. 35,041), Bouches-du-Rhône dept., SE France. Its major manufactures are olive oil, petroleum products, coffee, and soap. In the town are churches dating from the 12th to the 14th cent. It has been the site of the French air force academy since 1936.
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Herbes de Provence for your pantry -- that's amour By Jill Silverman Hough CONTRIBUTOR FOR YEARS, I'd seen herbes de Provence on the shelves of fancy food stores. It's often sold in a little clay pot, sometimes tied with raffia, and with wha
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 9/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; FOR YEARS, I'd seen herbes de Provence on the shelves of fancy food stores. It...and I've been in love with herbs de Provence ever since. As the name suggests, herbes de Provence is a dried blend of the most commonly used...
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Provence is in the pink; Wine.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 1/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...vast, sprawling, stony vineyards of Provence. For generations, probably for centuries...been the ordinary, everyday drink of Provence, the ideal partner for a cuisine built...juice pink. Rose is big business in Provence - roughly three-quarters of all the...
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Petrarch as a poet of Provence.
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Petrarch was a poet of Provence because he spent much of his life there, even though he...We sometimes forget that the lordship of Provence, but not Provence itself, fell to the king of France as late as 1486, and...
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A PASSION FOR PROVENCE; THE LITERARY & CULINARY SEDUCTION OF THE SENSES
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/13/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...a craggy hillside, the Good Lord of Provence also placed a pillow of wild thyme underfoot...there's the next day's warming sun. Provence, the southern scoop of France, begins...seduced by the landscape and the people of Provence, is without doubt the proximal cause...
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PROVENCE'S LIQUID GOLD ON TAP.(water supply in France)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Europe; 4/1/2001; 700+ words
; In Provence, hot summer weather is just a few weeks...necessary. Water pours out of every tap in Provence on demand, and it is so clean that you...home sterilizer. Yet not so long ago, Provence was parched every summer. The hot sun...
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Herbes de Provence -- that's amour
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; FOR YEARS, I'd seen herbes de Provence on the shelves of fancy food stores. It...and I've been in love with herbs de Provence ever since. As the name suggests, herbes de Provence is a dried blend of the most commonly used...
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Nstein solutions enable France's Groupe La Provence to streamline content management and launch new regional portal.
PR Newswire; 6/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...industries, today announced that Groupe La Provence - France's fifth largest publisher...been brought to fruition by Groupe La Provence using Nstein's solutions and expertise...structured and accessible archives Groupe La Provence needed to restructure seven years of...
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Herbes de Provence for your pantry -- that's amour
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 9/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; FOR YEARS, I'd seen herbes de Provence on the shelves of fancy food stores. It...and I've been in love with herbs de Provence ever since. As the name suggests, herbes de Provence is a dried blend of the most commonly used...
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 "The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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French farmers disdain imported herbes de Provence.
Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 9/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...foreign fare. In the southern region of Provence, herb growers are trying to stop cheap imitations of their esteemed herbes de Provence - the evocatively aromatic blend of dried...Albania, Turkey and Morocco. "Herbes de Provence are known all over the world," said...
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French turn up noses at herbs grown outside Provence.
Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 8/31/2002; 700+ words
; ...foreign fare. In the southern region of Provence, herb growers are trying to stop cheap imitations of their esteemed herbes de Provence _ the evocatively aromatic blend of dried...Albania, Turkey and Morocco. "Herbes de Provence are known all over the world," said...
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Provence
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Provence , region and former province, SE France...and (in part) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes depts. Nice, Marseilles...Toulon, Avignon, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence (the historic capital) are the chief...
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Aix-en-Provence
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aix-en-Provence , city (1990 pop. 126,854), Bouches-du-Rhône dept., in Provence, SE France. It is a commercial center...the 5th cent. It has been the capital of Provence since the 12th cent. (except when replaced...
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Haute-Provence Observatory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Haute-Provence Observatory ( OHP ) An observatory at an altitude of 660 m at St Michel, near Forcalquier in the Alpes de Haute Provence, southern France. It was founded in 1936 and is owned and operated...
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Eleanor of Provence
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Eleanor of Provence (1223–91), queen of Henry III. Daughter of Raymond Berenger IV, count of Provence, Eleanor married in 1236. The queen and her Provençal relatives were not popular. She raised funds for her husband...
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , department (1990 pop. 132,400), SE France; formerly Basses-Alpes dept. Digne is the capital.
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