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Every report, table and address, gathered in one place — the South of France, read slowly.

The Mediterranean at golden hour Cover Story · N° 09
The Grand Report · Var

Forty-eight hours on the Îles d’Or, where summer never ends

Porquerolles, Port-Cros, Le Levant. Three islands off the Var coast, a notebook, and no return ticket — the South as it was promised.

Words — The Editors · Hyères
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Latest from the Midi

Issue N° 09 · Spring 2026
A Provence village house under blue skyN° 09
Provence · Stay

Hôtel Crillon le Brave

A perched village reimagined as a single hotel, with a pool above Mont Ventoux.

Crillon-le-Brave · Vaucluse
A Mediterranean harbour at golden hourN° 09
Languedoc · Table

La Table de Castigno

A two-star table inside a wine-village resort, the most quietly inventive kitchen west of Marseille.

Assignan · Hérault
Red cliffs above the sea, the EsterelN° 09
Alpilles · Wine

Domaine de Trévallon

Forty years of biodynamic farming at the foot of the Alpilles, and reds that age for thirty.

Saint-Étienne-du-Grès
A coastal village on the French RivieraN° 08
Côte d’Azur · Stay

Hôtel Les Roches Rouges

A 1950s seaside hotel rescued from kitsch — bare terrazzo and a saltwater pool cut into the rock.

Saint-Raphaël · Var
A perched Provence village seen from aboveN° 08
Provence · Report

A weekend in the Luberon, village by village

Gordes, Bonnieux, Ménerbes, Lacoste — forty kilometres of back road and the art of arriving nowhere.

Vaucluse
A countryside farmhouse among wildflowersN° 08
Camargue · Stay

Le Mas de Peint

A working rice and bull farm turned discreet hotel deep in the delta — horses at dawn, salt on the wind.

Le Sambuc · Bouches-du-Rhône
A hillside village among treesN° 07
Provence · Villages

Ménerbes, the writer’s village

Where Peter Mayle made the Luberon famous — and why it survived the fame.

Ménerbes · Vaucluse
A tree beside an old stone buildingN° 07
Haute-Provence · Table

La Bastide de Moustiers

Alain Ducasse’s country inn below the gorges du Verdon, with a kitchen garden at the door.

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie
A hilltop village in Provence at first lightN° 07
Provence · Walks

The ochre trail at Roussillon

A short loop through the old quarries, where the earth runs from butter to blood red.

Roussillon · Vaucluse

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