The Chateau"It is 1948, and a battered France is just beginning to receive its first American tourists since the war... although Harold and Barbara Rhodes are enchanted by the small perfections that greet them at the Château Beaumesnil and tolerant of the lack of such amenities as sugar and hot water, there is much that bewilders them. Is their hostess, the gallant Mme Viénot, flirting with Harold? Will they ever win the approval of the impeccably connected M. Carrère and his forbidding wife? Can American eagerness and goodwill ever decipher the ancient codes of French civility?"--Publisher description. |
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