Chateau and Country Life in France

Mary King Waddington (1833 - 1923)

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

Genre(s): Memoirs

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Chapter I Chateau Life, Part 1 Jenn Broda
00:29:26
Play 02 Chapter I Chateau Life, Part 2 Jenn Broda
00:22:56
Play 03 Chapter II Country Visits, Part 1 Adam Gammons
00:25:59
Play 04 Chapter II Country Visits, Part 2 zzy55
00:16:12
Play 05 Chapter II Country Visits, Part 3 zzy55
00:30:00
Play 06 Chapter III The Home of Lafayette Lucy Kempton
00:23:40
Play 07 Chapter IV Winter at the Chateau, Part 1 Melinda Fogle
00:26:43
Play 08 Chapter IV Winter at the Chateau, Part 2 zzy55
00:31:40
Play 09 Chapter V Ceremonies and Festivals, Part 1 Florence
00:25:31
Play 10 Chapter V Ceremonies and Festivals, Part 2 Florence
00:32:42
Play 11 Chapter V Ceremonies and Festivals, Part 3 Florence
00:25:04
Play 12 Chapter VI Christmas in the Valois, Part 1 KevinS
00:21:14
Play 13 Chapter VI Christmas in the Valois, Part 2 KevinS
00:18:02
Play 14 Chapter VII A Racine Celebration Lucy Kempton
00:31:47
Play 15 Chapter VIII A Corner of Normandy Lucy Kempton
00:28:17
Play 16 Chapter IX A Norman Town Lucy Kempton
00:26:34
Play 17 Chapter X Norman Chateaux Alex Foster
00:21:06
Play 18 Chapter XI Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Part 1 Dyla
00:21:16
Play 19 Chapter XI Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Part 2 Tatiana Chichilla
00:08:35