The Durance is represented in the form of an ornate monument at the Palais Longchamp, in Marseille, built between 1862 and 1869 by the architect Espérandieu, to celebrate the arrival of water from the Durance, via the Canal de Marseille.
It is also depicted beneath a sculpture of a pregnant woman in Charleval, Bouches-du-Rhône.

References in literature include:
Alexandre Dumas refers to the Durance as one of the three scourges of Provence
poets Adolphe Dumas (1806–1861), Félibrige, republican and traditionalist, Paul Arène, Clovis Hugues and Élémir Bourges who referred to this river;
the best known writer to be inspired by the Durance, Jean Giono, who makes use of it in his imaginary geography of Provence, transforming it into river that flows to the sea and he refers to it as masculine, and describing its flow through the water gap at Sisteron without mentioning the town, then describing an imaginary Rebeillard highland.
Horseman on the Roof is also set along the course of the Durance.

Among the painters to have represented it are Guigou and Monticelli, close friends, who settled in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance and made many paintings where it appears, either as background, or as subject (86 of the 421 paintings by Guigou).
The Romanian surrealist painter, Victor Brauner, took refuge in 1942 in Remollon and made several paintings on materials that he found.

For several years a club has revived the tradition of rafting, each year building rafts from tree trunks then navigating a section of the Durance with them.

An FM local radio station is called Radio Durance.

In French cinema is the setting of the film L'Eau vive by François Villiers is during the construction of the dam at Serre-Ponçon.

La Durance is also the name of an academic bulletin by history and geography professors at Aix-Marseille.
The Durance is represented in the form of an ornate monument at the Palais Longchamp, in Marseille, built between 1862 and 1869 by the architect Espérandieu, to celebrate the arrival of water from the Durance, via the Canal de Marseille. It is also depicted beneath a sculpture of a pregnant woman in Charleval, Bouches-du-Rhône.
References in literature include:
Alexandre Dumas refers to the Durance as one of the three scourges of Provence
poets Adolphe Dumas (1806–1861), Félibrige, republican and traditionalist, Paul Arène, Clovis Hugues and Élémir Bourges who referred to this river;
the best known writer to be inspired by the Durance, Jean Giono, who makes use of it in his imaginary geography of Provence, transforming it into river that flows to the sea and he refers to it as masculine, and describing its flow through the water gap at Sisteron without mentioning the town, then describing an imaginary Rebeillard highland. Horseman on the Roof is also set along the course of the Durance.
Among the painters to have represented it are Guigou and Monticelli, close friends, who settled in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance and made many paintings where it appears, either as background, or as subject (86 of the 421 paintings by Guigou). The Romanian surrealist painter, Victor Brauner, took refuge in 1942 in Remollon and made several paintings on materials that he found.
For several years a club has revived the tradition of rafting, each year building rafts from tree trunks then navigating a section of the Durance with them.
An FM local radio station is called Radio Durance.
In French cinema is the setting of the film L'Eau vive by François Villiers is during the construction of the dam at Serre-Ponçon.
La Durance is also the name of an academic bulletin by history and geography professors at Aix-Marseille.
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