The first-class compartment was stifling; the vivid advertising cards of the railroad companies--The Pont du Gard at Arles, the Amphitheatre at Orange, winter sports at Chamonix--were fresher than the long motionless sea outside.
These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Arles, surprising the historians who have been working here since 2014, patches of paint still cling to the stone walls of the bedroom and reception hall.
These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Arles, surprising the historians who have been working here since two thousand fourteen, patches of paint still cling to the stone walls of the bedroom and reception hall.
Arles (French pronunciation:[aʁl]; Provençal [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in ancient Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.