About the Author

Nancy Coons is the author of Escape to Provence, Escape to the Riviera, Fodor's Provence and the Cote d'Azur, andFodor's Switzerland and a contributor to guides on France, Italy, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Her commentaries on French life have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, and she has contributed to Saveur, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. She lives in a three-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Lorraine region of France with her husband and two daughters.