Île Saint-Honorat
Monastic island of pine woods, hand-worked vineyards, a fortified abbey tower and quiet swimming coves.
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This guide to Île Saint-Honorat, off Cannes, follows Blanche Alziari de Roquefort, a celebrated Comédie-Française actress of the seventeen-eighties, and the turn of the Revolution that brought her from a Paris stage to a monks' island. It touches the rivals who shaped her career and the Cistercians who live here now. Best heard on a shaded path under the pines, with the monastery in view.
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