The travel journalist and art historian Nick Trend this week launches the second in a series of books celebrating both artists and the places where they lived and worked. Over 12 chapters in France: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists (Thames & Hudson, £50), he invites readers to follow everyone from Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the most sought-after portraitist of her day in pre-revolutionary Versailles, to Cézanne and Van Gogh in Provence and Picasso on the French Riviera.