Jacques Lacarrière

His classical works Maria of Egypt and Dictionnaire amoureux de la Grèce (Dictionary for one who loves Greece) were also successes.

Beginning in August, he traveled from Saverne in the Vosges, reaching Leucate in November, which is located in the Corbières.

It was reprinted by Fayard in 1997 with a postscript entitled "Memory of roads," and addition of selected letters from readers.

Lacarrière's 1973 literary essay, Les Gnostiques, is well respected for its insights into the early Christian religious movement of Gnosticism.

For the whole of his work, in 1991 Lacarrière was awarded le Grand Prix de l'Académie française (the Great Prize of the French Academy).