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A Versailles Christmas-tide
A Versailles Christmas-tide | Mary Stuart Boyd
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Reproduction of the original: A Versailles Christmas-tide by Mary Stuart Boyd
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A Versailles Christmas-tide | Mary Stuart Boyd
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A English couple learn their son has scarlet fever and cannot travel home for Christmas and so travel to his boarding school in Versailles, France. Loved this little book so much. Written in the style of W. G. Sebald though it pre-dates Sebald by a good 85 years. Master class in observation and description of life in 1900 Versailles over a number of weeks. No plot. No characters. Just scenes of life.

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bnp Sounds awesome. 2y
TiminCalifornia @bnp judging from the goodreads reviews it‘s not to everyone‘s taste but I liked the good natured narration and window into the world at the turn of the last century. 2y
jlhammar Definitely sounds like something I would like. Being public domain, looks like there is a free audio version on LibriVox if anyone is interested. I‘m going to try to track down a copy with the illustrations. 2y
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