title: Bon Courage: Rediscovering the Art of Living (In the Heart of France)
author:  Ken McAdams 
description: One year and one arduous home-renovation into their marriage, Ken and Bing head to the French countryside to celebrate their long-delayed honeymoon, swearing theyre getting out of the home-fixing business for good. When they fall in love with the village of La Montagne Noire, they find themselves buying a fixer-upper and starting all over againbut this time, in French! McAdams recounts their mishaps and misadventures with humor, capturing the essence of French village life, the awkwardness of being foreigners in a close-knit town, the couples hilarious linguistic pratfalls, and how the mammoth undertaking that threatens to tear their new marriage apart ultimately brings them closer together and helps them find a place in the community they have grown to love.
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  ## [DEDICATION](nav.html#ded)
  
  
  
  
  
  TO WILL AND ANNE CLEVELAND
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ _Dedication_](9780062312075_Dedication.html#rded)
  
  
  * [ _Foreword_](9780062312075_Foreword.html#rfors)
  
  
  * [ _Preface_](9780062312075_Preface.html#rpreface)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [1 Glorious news! Nap’s landed again in France, Hurrah!](9780062312075_Chapter_1.html#rch1)
  
  
  * [2 Napoleon has humbugged me, by God!](9780062312075_Chapter_2_split_000.html#rch2)
  
  
  * [3 The fate of France is in your hands!](9780062312075_Chapter_3.html#rch3)
  
  
  * [4 Avancez, mes enfants, courage, encore une fois, Français!](9780062312075_Chapter_4.html#rch4)
  
  
  * [5 Ah! Now I’ve got them, those English!](9780062312075_Chapter_5.html#rch5)
  
  
  * [6 A cannon ball came from the Lord knows where and took the head off our right-hand man](9780062312075_Chapter_6.html#rch6)
  
  
  * [7 The Big Boots don’t like rough stuff!](9780062312075_Chapter_7.html#rch7)
  
  
  * [8 Those terrible grey horses,