Chateau and Country Life in France: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Chateau and Country Life in France, credited to Mary King Waddington, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington. Read in English by Jenn Broda; Adam Gammons; zzy55; Lucy Kempton; Melinda Fogle; Florence; KevinS; Alex Foster; Dyla ; Tatiana Chichilla 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. - Summary by Colleen McMahon

Recording facts

• Recording title: Chateau and Country Life in France
• Author credits: Mary King Waddington
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 7:46:44

Catalogue topics

• travel
• memoir
• autobiography
• France
• 19th century
• woman author
• 20th century
• social life and customs

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I Chateau Life, Part 1 — 29:26
2. 02 - Chapter I Chateau Life, Part 2 — 22:56
3. 03 - Chapter II Country Visits, Part 1 — 25:59
4. 04 - Chapter II Country Visits, Part 2 — 16:12
5. 05 - Chapter II Country Visits, Part 3 — 30:00
6. 06 - Chapter III The Home of Lafayette — 23:40
7. 07 - Chapter IV Winter at the Chateau, Part 1 — 26:43
8. 08 - Chapter IV Winter at the Chateau, Part 2 — 31:40
9. 09 - Chapter V Ceremonies and Festivals, Part 1 — 25:31
10. 10 - Chapter V Ceremonies and Festivals, Part 2 — 32:42
11. 11 - Chapter V Ceremonies and Festivals, Part 3 — 25:04
12. 12 - Chapter VI Christmas in the Valois, Part 1 — 21:14
13. 13 - Chapter VI Christmas in the Valois, Part 2 — 18:02
14. 14 - Chapter VII A Racine Celebration — 31:47
15. 15 - Chapter VIII A Corner of Normandy — 28:17
16. 16 - Chapter IX A Norman Town — 26:34
17. 17 - Chapter X Norman Chateaux — 21:06
18. 18 - Chapter XI Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Part 1 — 21:16
19. 19 - Chapter XI Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Part 2 — 8:35

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