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Excerpt from Chateau and Country: Life in France We generally had our day to ourselves. We rode almost every morning - long, delicious gallops in the woods, the horses going easily and lightly over the grass roads, and the days W. Was away and couldn't ride, I used to walk about the park and gardens. The kitchen garden was enormous almost a park in itself - and in the season I eat pounds of white grapes, which ripened to a fine gold color on ...

Excerpt from My First Years as a Frenchwoman: 1876 1879The French Protestant Chapel Of the rue Tait bout, by Monsieur Bersier, one of the ablest and most eloquent pastors of the Protestant church. We had just established ourselves in Paris, after having lived seven years in Rome. We had a vague idea of going back to America, and Paris seemed a first step in that direction-was nearer New York than Rome. I knew very little of France - we had nev...

Excerpt from My War Diary, 1918 This simple, every-day record of the experiences through which one French family has lived since August, 1914, may seem at first sight a charming, but not very important contribution to the literature of the war. But if we accept Henry Cabot Lodge's dictum that "one fact is gossip, and that two related facts are history, " we shall realise in closing the book how much history we have absorbed in a Jourdainesque...

Excerpt from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January May, 1880, February April, 1904 Mrs. Eugene Schuyler, née King. 1 W. Here and throughout these letters refers to M. William Henry Wad dingtou, Madame Waddington's husband.4 italian letters Um. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work....

Excerpt from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: 1883-1900 Mary Alsop King Waddington is a daughter of the late Charles King, President of Columbia College in the City of New York from 1849 to 1864, and a granddaughter of Rufus King, the second Minister sent to England by the United States after the adoption of the Constitution. Miss King was educated in this country. In 1871, after the death of her father, she went, with her mother and sisters, t...

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