Absolutely essential, in Sète, is a visit to the museum dedicated to Paul Valéry, who was born in this little town. And inside, like a small gem in a greater jewel, you’ll find another tiny museum, dedicated to another poet, the chansonnier Georges Brassens, who was born in Sète, too. This cohabitation worthly represents the strength of French democracy: Valéry, a conservative bourgeois, photographed in his immaculate waistcoats and in his academic attire, and anarchistic Brassens in his rolled-up sleeves, a guitar in his hands, whose songs attacked the middle class with such derision…