Grasse
Hilltop perfume town of steep medieval lanes, fragrance houses and a painter's family villa.
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This guide to Grasse, the hill town above Cannes, follows the painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard home in seventeen ninety, carrying four canvases that a king's mistress had sent back to him. It touches Madame du Barry's pavilion outside Paris, the clash between Rococo charm and the new classical taste, and a cousin's villa with bare walls to fill. Best heard on Boulevard Fragonard, near the villa where the painter stayed.
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