French Letters

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>French Letters is based on the letters and records of an Australian francophile who has spent most of his leisure time and a good deal of his working life in France and the French-speaking world. The reminiscences range over Paris of course Bordeaux and Lyon with their rich historic and gastronomic treasures; regional corners such as Grignan in Provence with its elegant literary connections and the curiously-named Condom (in Gascony) with its links to the Three Musketeers and then Marseille with its maritime links to the French colonial world and to Outremer to far-away French-influenced places such as Egypt Indochina Madagascar New Caledonia Quebec Reunion Island and Tahiti. This is a light-hearted and yet thoughtful view of a wide and often little-known world presented here in an easily accessible form for dreamers adventurers and armchair travellers.</span></p>