Laurence Wylie (1910-1995), an American sociologist, lived with his family in Roussillon for a year in 1950-1951 as part of the American university custom of sabbatical leave. In 1957, he published a study entitled Village in the Vaucluse translated as Un village du Vaucluse in French in 1968. Called Peyranne in the American version, Roussillon appears under its real name in the French translation. Inspired by anthropological culturalism and supported by A. Irving Hallowell and Margaret Mead, Laurence Wylie's survey in Roussillon responded to the need of his author - then a professor of French literature - to enrich his teaching on direct knowledge and anthropological analysis of daily life in France.