Olivier Weber [SEP] native language
Olivier Weber
Olivier Weber (born 1958) is an award-winning French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism
used steam distillation to produce essential oil from wild rosemary and lavender which he sold at open-air markets in his native Provence. "L'Occitane" was named for the women of Occitania. This area existed during the Middle Ages, spanning southern France, north-eastern Spain and northern Italy. Occitan was the native language and is still spoken as a second language in some areas of this region.
In 1976, using an old soap factory that was donated to him, Olivier Baussan revived the traditional art of Marseille soap