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Susan Cutsforth. Our House is Certainly Not in Paris
The Third Year in Le Lot. Pied de la Croix
Prologue. Bonjour Pied de la Croix
1. Ooh La, La, Technology and Renovating
2. Two Lives Mirrored
3. La Piscine in Peril
4. The Moon, Whales and Stale Bread
5. A Morning In Paris
6. Portables and Septiques
7. A Mouse in the House
8. Restoring la Petite Maison
9. A New Approach
10. Le Supermarché
11. Picking Up the Threads
12. French Protocol
13. Isabelle’s Petite Shop
14. Bon Courage
15. Our Belgian Friends
16. The Figeac Caravane
17. Le Grand Jardin
18. Two Worlds
19. A Country Life
20. Martel and the Markets
21. Pied de la Croix’s Stories
22. Brive-le-Gaillarde and le Jardinière Chantalat
23. Le Chien Quest
24. Solde in Brive-la-Gaillarde
25. Resuming Relentless Work in Le Jardin
26. The Morning of Le Maçon
27. Summer Daze
28. The Days Unfurl
29. A New Week Beckons
30. La Dinette
31. Ferme Auberge
32. The Great Surprise
33. Friday the Thirteenth of July
34. Brigitte’s Birthday
35. Summer at Last
36. The Work Starts in Earnest
37. The Summer Heat Surges
38. Fling Open the Shutters
39. To Market, to Market
40. French Kittens
41. Le Tour De France
42. Two Trees and a Cupboard
43. Trois Vide Grenier
44. A Wedding in the Village
45. Summer Sunday Afternoons
46. A Cuzance Working Week
47. Tourist Season – Not on Our Agenda
48. Castine Days Continue
49. The Spirit of Cuzance
50. Castine Consumes our Days
51. Le Jardin – Strike Trois
52. The Unfolding Weeks
53. History Lessons and Stories
54. Crazy Paving, Never-ending
55. Our Cuzance Vide Grenier
56. Crazy Days of Crazy Paving
57. Return to the Mairie
58. Soaring Summer Days
59. Crazy Paving Calculations
60. Dust and French Linen
61. Trench Weed-Fare
62. Relentless Toil
63. Dog Days
64. Rural Parisians
65. An Enchanted Evening
66. Fin – Rénovation – For Now
67. Petite Vacances
68. Le Relais Sainte Anne
69. My Idea of ‘Fun’
70. Le Coiffure
71. New Amis
72. Au Revoir Cuzance
73. A Night in Paris
74. Apéritifs at Three in the Morning
75. Bon Voyage – At Last
76. Life at Home, Again
77. Email Friendships from Afar
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Glossary of French words
The third memoir in the ‘Our House’ series, available December 2014. Our House is Definitely Not in Paris. The Fourth Summer in Le Lot. Prologue
1. Packing for Paris
2. An Apartment in Paris
3. Fling Open the Shutters
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Our house is certainly not in Paris.
— Edith Wharton
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Two of our main criteria were that the house was not to be a on a road or near a farm, largely to avoid the invasion of les mouches and also because peace and quiet are things we cherish. This was based in fact from my notebook for a future holiday house, after renting one in the Dordogne the previous year. There was no way we could have possibly imagined at the time, that it would become, a mere six months later, the template for buying our own petite maison.
On our previous trip to France, we had stayed with a friend in the Pyrenees. But our hearts didn’t resonate with the harsh landscape and atypical architecture. We felt we were in a foreign land and longed to return to the département with which we had both instantly connected – the hamlets, golden stone, towering limestone cliffs and walnut orchards of the Lot.
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