Lacoste, Vaucluse still. The oldest building in the town, the Maison Forte, dates back to the 9th century while the nearby Pont Julien remains one of the oldest standing examples of a working 1st century B.C. Roman bridge. Finnbar Mac Eoin, author of "Two Suitcases And A Dog" lives in Lacoste. He was the last person to drive across The Pont Julien before it closed to traffic in 2005. A plaque states, "We do not know who was the first person to cross, but an Irishman was the last". Lacoste is best known for its most notorious resident, Donatien Alphonse Francois comte
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Karr was born in Paris, and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there. Some of his novels, including his first, "Sous les Tilleuls" (1832), were autobiographical romances. A second novel, "Une heure trop tard", followed next year, and was succeeded by many other popular works. His "Vendredi soir" (1835) and "Le Chemin le plus court" (1836) continued the vein of autobiographical romance with which he had made his first success. "Geneviève" (1838) is one of his