Editing Lawrence Durrell (section)

===Two further marriages and settling in Languedoc===
In 1955 Durrell separated from Eve Cohen. He married again in 1961, to Claude-Marie Vincendon, whom he met on Cyprus. She was a Jewish woman born in Alexandria. Durrell was devastated when Claude-Marie died of cancer in 1967. He married for the fourth and last time in 1973, to Ghislaine de Boysson, a French woman. They divorced in 1979.

In the spring of 1960, Durrell was hired to rewrite the script for the 1963 film ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bernstein|first=Matthew|title=Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|orig-year=1994|year=2000|isbn=0-8166-3548-X|page=355}}</ref> The production company had also proposed a [[Justine (1969 film)|film of ''Justine'']] which would eventually appear in 1969.

Durrell settled in [[Sommières]], a small village in [[Languedoc-Roussilon|Languedoc]], France, where he purchased a large house on the edge of the village. The house was situated in extensive grounds surrounded by a wall. Here he wrote ''[[The Revolt of Aphrodite]]'', comprising ''[[Tunc (novel)|Tunc]]'' (1968) and ''[[Nunquam (novel)|Nunquam]]'' (1970). He also completed ''[[The Avignon Quintet]]'', published from 1974 to 1985, which used many of the same motifs and styles found in his metafictional ''Alexandria Quartet''. Although the related works are frequently described as a quintet, Durrell referred to it as a "[[quincunx]]".

The opening novel, ''[[Monsieur (novel)|Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness]]'', received the 1974 [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]]. That year, Durrell was living in the United States and serving as the Andrew Mellon Visiting professor of humanities at the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite book | editor=Andrews, Deborah. (ed). | title=The Annual Obituary 1990 | publisher=Gale | year=1991}} p. 678.</ref>
The middle novel of the quincunx, ''[[Constance (novel)|Constance, or Solitary Practices]]'' (1981), which portrays France in the 1940s under the [[German occupation of France during World War II|German occupation]], was nominated for the [[Booker Prize]] in 1982. 
 
Other works from this period are ''Sicilian Carousel'', a non-fiction celebration of that island, ''The Greek Islands'', and ''Caesar's Vast Ghost'', which is set in and chiefly about the region of [[Provence, France]].