- A living picture of a France gone by - Affords glimpses of the worlds of film, art, banking, wine-making, dining, and language teaching - Tales set in Paris and the western Pyrenees The book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed the greyness of the day. Two Englishmen are enjoying a swim off the Essex coast when all at once both have the feeling that they...