€10m fight to save James Baldwin’s Provençal home

The writer’s home was a regular haunt of African-American cultural giants

In the Provençal town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the picturesque stone house beneath the medieval ramparts is known as “la maison de Jimmy”. The official records office lists it as the ancienne maison Baldwin.

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