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Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington (1833 - 1923).

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Mary King Waddington was the American daughter of Charles King, ninth president of Columbia University, and the granddaughter of New York Senator Rufus King. She moved to France with her parents in 1871, and three years later married William Waddington, French diplomat and statesman. After Waddington’s death in 1894, Mary published two volumes of memoirs of life as a diplomat’s wife. In 1909 she followed up with Chateau and Country Life in France, which describes her later life in the French countryside. Its chapters tell of chateaux visits, holidays and festivals, and country customs, and are a mix of more formal memoir pieces and sections that read like diary entries or chatty letters to American friends.
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        Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography/Memoirs

        Keywords that describe the book: travel, memoir, autobiography, France, 19th century, woman author, 20th century, social life and customs, american author

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Last edited by ColleenMc on April 25th, 2020, 6:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Colleen McMahon

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Reader Notes:

--Please don't read the illustration captions

--There are a couple of brief informational notes, please read them when you reach the footnote number in the text, in the format: "NOTE (footnote contents) END OF NOTE" then pick back up with the text.

--There are a fair amount of French place names and personal names, quite a few French words and terms, and a few longer phrases and sentences. Just do your best if you don't speak French! If you want help with pronunciation, I find Forvo.com is a good site and has most place names, the names of important people, as well as commonly used words and sometimes entire phrases/sentences. If I can't find something there, I try Googling "pronounce (word or phrase)" and try another site or one of the You Tube channels that provide pronunciations, but those are often computer generated and are not necessarily correct. I always try Forvo first and then just do my best.

--This is my first project as book coordinator so if I do anything that seems out of the usual process or I'm confusing you with anything, please ask here in the thread or send me a PM. Thanks!

Colleen
Last edited by ColleenMc on April 20th, 2020, 9:35 am, edited 4 times in total.
Colleen McMahon

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Post by ColleenMc »

Sure thing, and thanks! :D

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Post by linny »

Colleen, this looks like an interesting project. Nice pick. I can MC for you. I'll be back soon with your MW.
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Post by ColleenMc »

Thanks so much, Linny!

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Post by linny »

OK, your MW is up. You may want to shorten the file name but you don't have to. chateauandcountrylifeinfrance seems a little long to me but it's up to you. Have fun!
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Oh, I didn't know you could! Is Chateauandcountrylife enough? Do I change it or do you? I'm not sure about this part of things yet.

Colleen
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Post by linny »

ColleenMc wrote: April 20th, 2020, 9:21 am Oh, I didn't know you could! Is Chateauandcountrylife enough? Do I change it or do you? I'm not sure about this part of things yet.

Colleen
I changed it in the first post for you. As BC you can do this as well. The template generator always gives the full title. It's always better to do adjust the file naming at the start of the project. If it's a multi volume work we attempt to keep the naming convention similar. That doesn't always happen but it's a goal.

Have fun on your first BC project and let me know if you have any questions along the way. :D
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Post by linny »

Headed to readers wanted. :thumbs:
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Post by KevinS »

12 and 13, please.
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Post by jennlea »

May I claim sections 1 and 2?
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Yes please! Thank you both!

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Post by KevinS »

Here is Section 12, but please don't place it in the Magic Window yet. I want to check on some of the French first.

https://librivox.org/uploads/linny/chateauandcountrylife_12_waddington_128kb.mp3 (21:14)

If I am struck and killed by a bus in the meantime, then you've got this at least!
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Post by ElizabethOfTheSea »

Hello!

This memoir feels like a little vacation to the French countryside in book form! May I read section 15, "A Corner of Normandy"?
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