French Lessons (26 page)

PETER MAYLE

French Lessons

Peter Mayle lives with his wife and their two dogs in the South of France.
His hobbies include walking, reading, writing, and lunch.

ALSO BY PETER MAYLE

Encore Provence

Chasing Cézanne

Anything Considered

A Dog’s Life

Hotel Pastis

Toujours Provence

A Year in Provence

FIRST VINTAGE DEPARTURES EDITION
,
APRIL
2002

Copyright
©
2001
by Escargot Productions Ltd.

Illustrations
©
2001
by Alfred A. Knopf,

a
division of Random House, Inc.

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Random House, Inc., New York,

and simultaneously in Canada by Random
House of Canada

Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover
in the

United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of

Random House, Inc., New York, in 2001.

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The Library of Congress has
cataloged the Knopf edition as

follows:

Mayle,
Peter

French Lessons : adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew /
Peter Mayle.—1st ed.

p. cm.

I
. Title.

2001087658

Includes 12 line drawings by Ruth Marten

Author photograph
©
Werner Gritzbach

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