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New Friends From “The East,” c. 1994

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Capture The Cause

Marie-Thérèse: “I do not think America can be friends with both England and with Napoleon.”

Capture The Cause

Tomorrow The Grace

Carolina: “Ambition and war and vices are always with us. He was most correct only about the fall of empires. This Bonaparte’s must be next.”

Tomorrow The Grace

Conventions: The Garden At Paris

Robert: “My friend who wrote that letter, he’s passed eighty now. When I was in Paris fifty years ago, where I met him, he loved her dearly. And, oh, Nancy, how she loved him…”

Conventions: The Garden At Paris

Trilogy: Passports, Frontiers, Distances: The Three Novels in One Volume

Béatrice: “We will all of us have a drink to everyone we remember and love.”

Trilogy: Passports, Frontiers, Distances: The Three Novels in One Volume

Distances: Atlantic Lives, 1996-1997 (Book 3)

Bill: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.”

Distances: Atlantic Lives, 1996-1997

Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996 (Book 2)

Valérie: “Because you are born on a farm, this does not make you a horse!”

Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996

Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995 (Book 1)

Isabelle: “I’ll set the table… This is better than a restaurant. Oh, and by when I leave… I expect you will have told me all about General de Gaulle also.”

Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995

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