From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant

• Paperback - 30 September, 2003 - Harper Paperbacks
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• By: Michael S Sanders
• ISBN: 0060959207

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Reviews by readers

Fascinating!

The author gives an excellent and well-balanced view of rural lifestyles in France.

So Beautiful, I couldn't Put it Down for a Minute

This is not a book about France, it is an experience, relived, through the warmth and charm of Michael Sanders and his family as they observe and share intimate details of the lives of the villagers they have come to love as friends, neighbors, and confidants. With great feeling and respect, the stories of their lives are slowly revealed to us, as much a feast as it is an education, and almost a call to action. Soothing, and full of warmth and charm, this book is the one you want to crawl up with under a warm fuzzy blanket on a cold winter's night to remind you that there are still places left in the world that tend after the human spirit with great dignity, simplicity and passion for the things in life that really matter.

We had stumbled upon a little world of good.

After I read chapter 3, "Monsieur le mairie," I knew that I not only liked this book, but loved it. This is a book of very warm, real portraits of French people in a small community and of vivid and pleasant images of a village and the countryside around it. The book centers on the village of Les Arques in the valley of the Lot River, which lies below the better known valley of the Dordogne, and it is loosely center around a restaurant, La Recreation, and the dedicated proprietors, Jacques and Noelle. Although I am not interested in restaurants and cooking, I found myself fascinated. Not only did I learn about the life of a small, yet dedicated restaurant, but about the farmer who lovingly came to grow produce for it. And about the many other relationships of Les Arques that spell the familial essence of being French. I learned about the trials of producing truffles, of raising ducks for foie gras, and of eking out a living in rural France. Yet it is a happy book, a joyous book, a real book, and a loving book. When the author returned to America, it was almost as difficult for me to say good-bye to Les Arques.

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