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It shocks us out of our facile rhetoric, past the clichés of our obtuseness, back to the mystery of a stubbornly, utterly foreign sensibility, and I cannot think of another book since André Malraux’s melancholy artifice, “La Tentation de l’Occident,” that even starts to do this.

La Tentation de Bramafam is a fluffy eggplant-walnut dip with a clear connection to dishes like baba ghanouj.

I enjoy a drink at the waterfront Le Cafe du Village and a seafood dinner at La Tentation, both in the city centre.

A detail from La Tentation de Saint Antoine, which France will return to its rightful owner.

"Mine is the standard which has to be met, which is when the work makes me feel the way I do when I read La Tentation de Saint Antoine, or the Old Testament."