Mary King Waddington, a New Yorker married to a French statesman, recalls three decades of country life near the forest of Villers-Cotterets and in Normandy. She describes château households and country visits, Lafayette’s home, winter in the country, local ceremonies, Christmas in the Valois, a Racine celebration and the towns and manor houses of Normandy.
A charming insider’s portrait of provincial France in the late nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.