Secret Provence - Cassely Jean-Pierre

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Résumé :
A moondial in the Alpilles, a village in the Haut-Var without which Louis XIV might never have been born, a theory that Saint Sarah was actually the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, a night spent in a bubble or up a tree, a statue of "The worst damned German poet of the lot", a private Coca Cola museum in Avignon, an antipope who disappeared in the Lubéron, a Masonic sundial, a rather unusual marriage door, traces of the Resistance still surviving in Manosque ... There is so much more to Provence than pictures of lavender fields and pretty villages with people playing pétanque and drinking pastis. Wander off the beaten track and you will find that Provence is teeming with curiosities to surprise and intrigue you, whether you are just visiting or you live there and thought you knew it well.

Biographie:
Jean-Pierre Cassely, born in Marseille and living in Cassis, spent ten years working for the French television network, France 3, before becoming an independent in the field of television, video and sound (together with his long-time partner Philippe Carrese). One day in Paris, he had an eye-opening experience. A series of visits revealed to him the secrets of the Ile-Saint-Louis, the hidden corners of Montmartre , and the black humour lurking in Pere Lachaise cemetery. Returning home to Provence by train, Jean-Pierre was already thinking about all the anecdotes he had collected or could collect about his own native region. He proceeded to explore the village of Cassis, the the cities and towns of Marseille, Aix, Sanary and, most recently, Toulon. His commentaries concerning his discoveries, broadcast daily on France Bleue Provence radio, under the apt title of 'Unusual Provence', took a humorous and sometimes provocative 'popular-historical' approach. Further information on these astonishing accounts can be found at: www.provence-insolite.org