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Hyères, Provençal Occitan: Ieras in classical norm, or Iero in Mistralian norm is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
A hillside view of the town
The Hôtel de Ville
Place Massillon, Hyères
Orchard at Bormes-les-Mimosas, Hyeres, by Ernest Yarrow Jones (c. 1910
Edith Wharton
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Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
Hyères
…Many wounded British soldiers were sent to the town to convalesce during World War I. The American novelist Edith Wharton wintered in Hyères annually from 1919 until her death in 1937. The garden of her villa, Castel Sainte-Claire, is open to the public. The villa previously…
Wharton, c. 1895
Portrait of Wharton as a child by Edward Harrison May (1870)
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May (1881)
The Mount, 2006