title: Caf&eacute; Oc: A Nomad's Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France
author:  Beebe Bahrami 
description: Beebe Bahrami is a professional writer known for award-winning travel, memoir, archaeology, outdoors and adventure, food and wine, spiritual, and cross-cultural writing. She is author of Cafe Neandertal--Excavating Our Past in One of Europe&apos;s Most Ancient Places, Cafe Oc--A Nomad&apos;s Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France, The Spiritual Traveler Spain, and Historic Walking Guides Madrid. She also writes for numerous magazines, anthologies, blogs, websites, and apps.
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  # The Happy Foreigner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Enid Bagnold
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PROLOGUE. THE EVE
  
  
  PART I. THE BLACK HUT AT BAR
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. THE TRAVELLER
  
  
  PART II. LORRAINE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. METZ
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. JULIEN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. VERDUN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. VERDUN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. THE LOVER IN THE LAMP
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. THE THREE “CLIENTS”
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. GERMANY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. THE CRINOLINE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. FANNY ROBBED AND RESCUED
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI. THE LAST NIGHT IN METZ: THE JOURNEY
  
  
  
  
  
  PART III. THE FORESTS OF CHANTILLY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII. PRECY-SUR-OISE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII. THE INN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIV. THE RIVER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XV. ALLIES
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVI. THE ARDENNES
  
  
  PART IV. SPRING IN CHARLEVILLE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVII. THE STUFFED OWL
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII. PHILIPPE'S HOUSE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIX. PHILIPPE'S MOTHER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XX. THE LAST DAY
  
  
  
  
      
  
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