To the derision of the butcher, the blacksmith and the mayor of Bar la Rose, the American narrator announces that he will live in Pont du Sable, a poor village by the marsh on the Norman coast. He finds there a curé, a sophisticated widow, smugglers, wildfowlers, a baron with fine cigars and a miser named Garron.
Warm, humorous sketches of French country life by an American writer and illustrator who knew it at first hand. Download the free EPUB.