Vienne

I wrote a short story first which was set in Vienne, with Thomas as the main character, decided I really did like this setting, and started the novel.

January 5th, 2007 themis 2007

In Ile-Rien (or, at least, in Vienne) homosexuality seems to be not exactly mainstream, but tolerated -- Morane's blackmailing incident seems to have been more about the young man's simultaneous engagement to a woman than about the existence of the affair entirely (unless I'm viewing it wrong), and Nicholas's not-entirely-unreceptive attitude to Morane indicates that it wasn't actively abhorrent on principle, at the least (unless, again, that's just Nicholas) -- so, it seems, attitudes are roughly similar to more tolerant European cultures of the analagous time period.

October 9th, 2007 dragonlady7 2007

When at last they did come, the Romans transformed the town into a great city -- the metropolis of the region lying between Geneva and Marseille; and so adorned it with noble buildings -- temples, forum, circus, theatre, aqueducts, baths -- and so enriched it with all manner of works of art, that it came to be known as Vienne the Beautiful throughout the civilized world.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

Then it was that Vienne was called Vienne the Holy -- because, while losing nothing of her splendours temporal, she gained great store of splendours spiritual: whereof the culmination was that famous Council, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, which crushed the Templars and gave over their possessions to the Crown.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

Vienne, which is mentioned by several of the Roman historians under its present name, was the capital of the Allobroges, and I looked upon it with a new and strange interest, on calling to mind my school-boy days, when I had become familiar with that war-like race, in toiling over the pages of Cæsar.

Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851

L'Isle-Jourdain, France -- No, not much has happened or is happening in this tiny, sleepy, French town -- some might call it a village -- nestled in the Vienne River valley in central France that would warrant a "dateline."

Dorian de Wind: One Constancy of War: The Youth of Those Who Fight and Die Dorian de Wind 2010

In 1998, the people of Persac and of the Vienne region erected a simple but touching monument on the side of a narrow, winding road in memory and in honor of those American heroes.

Dorian de Wind: One Constancy of War: The Youth of Those Who Fight and Die Dorian de Wind 2010

L'Isle-Jourdain, France -- No, not much has happened or is happening in this tiny, sleepy, French town -- some might call it a village -- nestled in the Vienne River valley in central France that would warrant a "dateline."

Dorian de Wind: One Constancy of War: The Youth of Those Who Fight and Die Dorian de Wind 2010

This was followed by a stint at La Pyramide in Vienne in western France, where he was mentored by Fernand Point.

Chef Paul Bocuse Harks Back to His Youth Jemima Sissons 2011

The other four, including the pilot and co-pilot, died in the aircraft as it crashed in the fields of Vienne, France.

Dorian de Wind: One Constancy of War: The Youth of Those Who Fight and Die Dorian de Wind 2010