Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction: Harvest of Dreams
1 A Winter’s Tale
2 What Is It about France?
3 Dog Days
4 On an Island in the Seine
5 Christmas with Kangaroos
6 The Seine in Flood
7 I Spy Strangers
8 Getting to Know the French
9 As If It Were Yesterday
10 Stormy Monday
11 Tock . . . Tock . . . Tock . . .
12 Baby Time
13 Something to Kill
14 Starting Over
15 The New Era
16 On the Beach
17 Enter Fabre, Pursued by a Bear
18 Saying Less, Meaning More
19 Tall Poppies
20 If Winter Comes . . .
21 Bloody Days
22 April in Paris
23 A Boy Named Wheelbarrow
24 Hot Hot Hot
25 Re-enter Fabre
26 Singin’ in the Rain
27 Pinups
28 Drunk in Charge
29 Exit Fabre
30 Taking the Waters
31 Enter Napoléon
32 Watch It Come Down
33 Who Was That Masked Man?
34 Night of the Scythe
35 One Perfect Rose
36 The Darling Buds of May
37 Gleaners
38 Something Fishy
39 Vive Le Mistral!
40 One-Man Show
41 Eating In
42 A Man Made of Flowers
43 Poets
44 Night Creatures
45 The Weather at War
46 The Pendulum Passes
Postscript
Important Dates and Events
Acknowledgments
Photography and Art Credits
Index
About the Author
Also by John Baxter
Copyright
About the Publisher