Like a bistro in provincial France, its walls are covered with tacky brown paneling, as if the owners didn't have access to anything better.

Through the story of one family, L'Audience covers half a century of life in provincial France.

It reminds me of provincial France, where you can drive through a village on a summer's afternoon and wonder if the place is inhabited.

This one drops you right in provincial France.

Jacob is the son of a poor peasant farmer in provincial France, and the family usually transport the wines of the local estate owner.

In provincial France, things are not like this.

It consists of three parts, starting in the provinces, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to provincial France.

Frédéric Moreau, the "hero", a young man from provincial France, who ends up a member of the middle class.

The story is set provincial France sometime in the 19th century.

But Nick had not been able to focus on the magnificently detailed descriptions of life in provincial France a hundred and fifty years earlier.