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linked by a whispering plot of fountains . In the main

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tree-heavy square you can sit in the autumn

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sunshine , still burning like a half-cooled iron ,

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sip pastis and read the local newspapers .

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One called La Patriote is Communist , and at the time

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of our arrival it was throwing huge over-ripe verbal

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tomatoes at General de Gaulle . One side of this square

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is a smart but modest bar called Pierre's Bar . For one

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day , with the help of the Syndicat d'Initiative , we had been

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hunting for furnished rooms , and had given up , when an

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elderly lady , the owner of a residence called the Poet's Nest ,

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had firmly closed the door in our noses .

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' It is a pity , ' said Mart , ' because it would have been

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a good address . ' Now , after a woman's radar look ,

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she decided Pierre would solve our problems . This

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was true , Pierre was a true Provenc*?6al , thin and

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yellow as lemon peel , wrestling with some gnawing rat

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of an illness , man of all trades , married to a commanding

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lady who loved small talk and the discreet

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accumulation of money .

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We went in . There were a few people in the bar ,

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elderly , well-off , artistic , who , you felt , had made a hard

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bargain for giving up . ' I have furnished rooms , ' said

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Pierre , ' and all mod cons . ' The price was 16,000 francs a

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month . ' Yes , ' we said immediately , even before viewing .

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We were shown around by Pierre .

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The flat was on the third floor ; two rooms ; soft Provenc*?

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6al view ; good intimate furnishing and colour ; running

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hot water from Butagas installation for washing-up ,

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basin and bidet ; own private , modern lavatory . The

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first night's sleeping was like a long convalescence .

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We were woken up twice about dawn by a soft

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eruption of turtle-doves .

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This was strange , even magic , because the owner's

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name was Pierre Tortorolo which , in Nicoison Italian means

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' turtledove ' . Pierre Turtledove . When we woke up properly it

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was raining , an even more hopeless rain than London , and we

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looked out of the windows at the weeping trees and the

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curling white breath of the mountains . The land looked

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like a beaten woman and the turtle-doves cried her

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shame .

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There they were , in fact , below us , eight of them .

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Four of them were flattened on the window sills , two

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immolated on a nearby roof top , the other pair copulating .

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We had a morning at Pierre's . He talked about people .

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Marc Chagall used to live here and an Englishman named

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Lawrence . He was here , near the railway station , three or

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four years . During this period he wrote a book ,

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The Lover of Lady Chatterly .

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No , he hadn't read it ; Madame did all the

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reading . Lawrence died in this very place .

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He used to come to Pierre's Bar again and

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again . No , he couldn't really remember

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him , he was one of the crowd . The

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sun came out ; Mart went shopping ; I

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sat in the square reading the Patriote .

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There was a front-page rear-attack on de

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Gaulle , and the rest of the paper was given up

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to murders , apart for an outcry against a

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proposal to drop radio-active material into

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the Mediterranean between Corsica and St

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Raphael . All the murders were well documented

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and had the air of being written by an

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ingenious , but mad film director of the

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Thirties .

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They mostly occurred in lonely farm-houses .

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Monsieur H , for instance , had been clubbed and

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throttled to death by his wife , children and

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father-in-law , after muddling up some sheep

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while the worse for drink . The family

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group then sat down for a late lunch

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before the father-in-law telephoned the police .

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Then again , Monsieur V , owing to family

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troubles , had written to the local

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paper and the superintendent of police ,

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informing them that he was on the point

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Monsieur V's house was immediately

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surrounded by firemen and other officials ,

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but there was no Monsieur V. He telephoned

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a few minutes later from a nearby village ,

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apologising for the trouble , but explaining

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that the walls were porous and the

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gas had escaped . General relief was

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expressed , but Monsieur V ( this was

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actually reported in the next issue ) returned

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home and shot himself , leaving a note

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which again left his household goods

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Some grim comic relief was provided by

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an elderly farm labourer out for a shoot

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who hid himself in a bush and imitated

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a blackbird . Unfortunately a sporting taxi-driver

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was after this very bird and shot the farm-

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labourer in the face . All , however ,

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ended well , reported the paper , since the

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pellets were easily removed and the

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labourer was able to return to work the

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same afternoon .

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We travelled down to Nice on the Lambretta .

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You can free-wheel down a quarter of the

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way . In the middle of the journey is a