This eighteenth-century honey-colored mansion on a hillside is great surrounded by the lavender and cypress trees of its seven-acre garden. It’s nearby to the Cours Mirabeau. The Cours Mirabeau is a wide thoroughfare, planted with double rows of plane-trees, bordered by fine houses and decorated by fountains. It follows the line of the old city wall and divides the town into two sections. The new town extends to the south and west; the old town, with its wide but irregular streets and its old mansions dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, lies to the north. Along this avenue, which is lined on one side with banks and on the other with cafés, is the Deux Garçons, the most famous brasserie in Aix. Built in 1792, it has been frequented by the likes of Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola and Ernest Hemingway.
Period Provençal rooms—most with a private garden or terrace—are outfitted in toile, cream, and crimson Louis XV furnishings, and comfortable beds.” The restaurant pairs Provençale, French, and Mediterranean dishes with Bordeaux, Burgundy, and local wines—all served on the terrace during the summer. Cool off in the outdoor pool.
South-France and especially Aix is always “tres jolie”….
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