Page 24 "...kept us simultaneously straddled between the Second Republic and the current Mitterand regime."

Francois Mitterand, the 21st President of the French Republic, serving 1981-1995.

Page 18 "...I told him the highways I wanted to take, the N96 to Meyrargues, the N556 to Pertuis, crossing the Durance River, and then west on the D973, along the Canal de Cadenet to our house."

Page 18 "...where the Marquis de Sade, Alphonse Daudet, and Vincent Van Gogh were once living pages of history."

Page 13 Civil War generals Grant and Longstreet



As we passed brownstone cooperatives, restaurants, dance theaters, and the sporadic Irish bar, Owen told me another anecdote about General Longstreet and Ulysses S. Grant.  I could see that for him, reading the Civil War had brought to life the act of making moral and ethical decisions, and this awareness of what awaited his own conscience, his battle wounds, his war between brothers, would be made clear to me in a very short time.