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Window on Brillacot: tales of a French town.(personal narrative)(Short Story)

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| April 01, 2005 | Masson-Talansier, Camille | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BEFORE BRILLACOT

BORN IN INDONESIA, schooled in Australia, I had never looked on France as a real home until fifteen years ago. Despite our childhood biennial sojourns in France with our expatriate French parents, France to us children was a holiday from real life in Australia and the banalities and torments of school (with Sister Veronica calling me "a pest" for being away for three months when I should have had my nose in my hated maths books).

In our beautiful, haunted old house in the village of Empeaux, thirty-five kilometres from Toulouse, we raced from red room to blue room to brown room, joyously taking in all the sights, the sounds, and ...

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