![]() ![]() (It is always good to have a little blood sugar boosting sucrose on hand when traveling.) I figured I could give my aunt the extra sachets de sucre for her train trip to Paris the next day. ![]() "Waste not, want not," she had explained, offering another of her affectionate winks. I had seen my aunt do the same at the previous café. Having only used one-half of a sugar envelop I was slipping the rest into my purse. I called over to my aunt, motionning to the sugar packets before her (we were each served two packets with our cup. Feeling that after-lunch slump, we were content to let our ears do the walking and we listened as they bent here and there capturing the various conversations, most in French, though some were accented in English "city" or "country." I wondered if the two ladies at the next table were from London? Then again, what do I know about the topography of talk or "accentry"?įinishing our cafe crèmes, we stood up to leave. There, at the Brasserie Le Sévigné my aunt, my uncle, and I sipped caffeine from colorful tasses de café. After your eyes expand over the valley, they are drawn back in to the skirt of the citadel, which bustles with café life. Their colorful petals pull your eyes up the narrow paths or calades, past the boutiques and the art galleries until you are overlooking the patchwork paysage of Provence. The flowers steal one's attention making it is easy to be attracted to this rose-rampant "rise" in the French sky. Picture so many words showering down from the chateau, falling like tears of joy, watering all those heirloom roses, from "Autumn Sunset" to "Gipsy Boy". Grignan was a must! Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille. you've got to be picky and choosy about just which postcard pretty places you'll take them to see. When your aunt and your uncle are in town for under a week. Les Synonyms : dérober = to purloin chiper = to swipe, filch piquer = to pinch, to nickĪ Day in a French Life. read on in today's story column.Īudio File: listen to Jean-Marc pronounce these French words ( Download MP3 or Wav file)Įlles ont chopé le sucre du bistro. A rose-lover's Shangri-la: the village of Grignan. ![]()
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