Join us for our next BritsNîmes “Lunch with…” literary event, with special guest speaker, Saint-Rémy-based author Gayle Smith Padgett.
Moving to France was an unlikely choice for an American who studied Spanish and Latin American Studies, lived in Mexico and South America and worked in Germany for half her career – yet it happened!
Gayle, a native of Washington State, has two master’s degrees, but, sadly, neither in French! The first was in Latin American Studies from UCLA and the second in English Linguistics from George Mason University. In Germany, she worked as a language specialist, an educational liaison and management analyst.
From their base in Heidelberg, Germany – about an hour from the French border – Gayle and her husband, Ralph, found Provence, found themselves smitten and eventually, found a way to make Provence home, and have lived in Saint-Rémy since 2011.
Passion for Provence: 22 Keys to La Belle Vie tells the tale, and is Gayle’s debut memoir.
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