Peter Mayle, an amazing writer and author ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=peter+mayle&x=0&y=0 ) often writes about his home and his neighborhood in the Provence. One of his weird neighbors is Monsieur massot, a silent, grumpy fellow, living in a dark, rotten farm right in the middle of nowhere, in a great paranoia of tourists. Understandable, but he overacts a bit...one time, he planned to place mines around his land...