wineries producing red, rosé, and white wines within the Ventoux AOC. Literary and other cultural references The Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett went into hiding from the Nazis in Roussillon during the years 1942–1945. His novel Watt was written there, and Beckett mentioned the village in his famous theatreplay Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot) (1955). Film director Henri Colpi shot this movie Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1970) with Fernandel as the leading character in Roussillon; Georges Brassens wrote a chanson for the film. Under the name of Peyrane, Roussillon is the subject of Laurence Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse (first edition 1957.) Roussillon is the setting of Susan Vreeland's 2015 novel, Lisette's List, about a young couple who move from Paris to Roussillon in 1937 to live with the husband's aging grandfather, an ochre miner and pigment salesman, who owns several post-impressionist paintings. The village gave its name to a Michelin-starred restaurant in London. Demography See also Communes of the Vaucluse department References External links Tourist office website Website of the Parc naturel régional du Luberon Conservatoire des Ocres Communes of Vaucluse Plus Beaux Villages de France