Pascal begins to tutor Lisette in both art and life, allowing her to see his small collection of paintings and the Provençal landscape itself in a new light. Pascal once worked in the nearby ochre mines and later became a pigment salesman and frame maker while selling his pigments in Paris, he befriended Pissarro and Cézanne, some of whose paintings he received in trade for his frames. But as she soon discovers, the hilltop town is rich with unexpected pleasures. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris. In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, André, move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for André’s grandfather Pascal. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France-to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war. From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr.
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