ABOUT YVONE LENARD Yvone Lenard left her native France as a young adult to make her life in California, where she obtained her Master's in French and Classics at UCLA. She became the Head of Language Division, French Department, UCLA, then Chairman of the Foreign Language Department at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her highly successful textbooks on French language and culture have been recognized by the French government by awarding her the rank of Officer in The National Order of Academic Palms, the rank of Knight in The Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, and the medal, Mérite et Dévouement Française. The City of Paris has awarded its own medal, L'Ordre de la Courtoisie Française. As Resident Director for a year of the International Program of the University of California at Aix-en-Provence, she fell in love with the region and purchased the house which is the subject of this book. Her semi-autobiographical romance novel, Chantal (Published by Delacorte in 1989), is about the life of a young woman in Nazi-occupied France. Yvone Lenard divides her time between her two homes in Los Angeles and Provence.

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