IF YOU LIKED THE BOOK, you’ll love Maison Blanche, the house belonging to our friends Susan and David Stuart. Few people know it’s available to rent in the summers. Fair warning, though: One visit to Maison Blanche may convince you that a house in rural France is the only thing missing from your life. It did for us. Within months we had bought one of our own a few miles away, and the rest is history—or at least our history. (Read the chapter “Ah, the Country Life” from Beginning French.)

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