A Year In the World by Frances Mayes

Author:Frances Mayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2006-03-17T05:00:00+00:00

Standing in front of 8, rue de Colette (formerly rue de l’Hospice), with her inspired, passionate descriptions in mind, I confront a tall dun-colored house with white shutters. It looks neglected. A doctor’s name is above the doorbell, which I imagine ringing—would it be possible to see Colette’s room—but don’t. She wrote:

A large solemn house, rather forbidding, with its shrill bell and its carriage entrance with a huge bolt like an ancient dungeon, a house that smiled only on its garden side. The back, invisible to passers-by, was a sun trap, swathed in a mantle of wisteria and bignonia too heavy for the trellis of worn ironwork, which sagged in the middle like a hammock and provided shade for the little flagged terrace and the threshold of the sitting room.

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