With insight, humor, and affection, Thad Carhart's charming memoir vividly evokes provincial post-WWII France through the eyes of an American boy living in Fontainebleau in the 1950s. Adding immense historical interest is a second narrative running throughout the book in which Carhart returns to his boyhood home as an adult, touring the small town's majestic Château of Fontainebleau (first built in 1137). Carhart shares fascinating stories of the art and architecture, as well as of the illustrious royalty who lived in the castle. What a marvelous journey through time for history buffs and sentimental souls!