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C O N T E N T S Preface ix I House Hunting 1 A Change of Plans 3 2 The Fall of a Hundred Stars 29 3 A Castle in the Backyard 53 II Dordogne Days 4 We Arrive with a Key 79 5 Dordogne Days 105 6 Neighbors 129 7 Madame Boucher 151 8 La Grande Randonnée 171 9 Périgord Terroir 193 10 Monsieur Cro-Magnon 215 III The Battle of Castelnaud 11 Closings 233 12 The Battle of Castelnaud 251 13 Exile and Return 271 Epilogue 293 Afterword 299 For Further Reading 305 v i i i c o n t e n t s ...

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