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Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France Audiobook, by Thad Carhart Play Audiobook Sample

Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France Audiobook

Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France Audiobook, by Thad Carhart Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Todd McLaren Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781515972013

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

36

Longest Chapter Length:

42:08 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08:16 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

16:25 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult, he began to appreciate its influence on French style, taste, art, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the château’s history, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot, the head of the château’s restoration, who becomes Carhart’s guide to the hidden Fontainebleau.

What emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm, precise prose, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast château of Fontainebleau and its village, built, piece by piece, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life, for armchair travelers, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again.

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"Finding Fontainebleau is a fun, intriguing meditation on time, place, and nationality."

— Penelope Rowlands, author of Paris Was Ours

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About Todd McLaren

Todd McLaren, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice acting, where he has been heard on more than five thousand television and radio commercials, as well as television promos; narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E, Discovery, and the History Channel; and films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?