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"The chateau, with a façade almost as long as Buckingham Palace, was big enough to give a millionaire aa feeling of not being too cramped." (Page 106) This picture is of the Imperial Palace Hotel at Annecy, but I think Canning may have had it in mind for O'Dowda's chateau. |
"... by five o'clock I was at Talloires, which is a small place on the east side of Lake Annecy. I got a room at the Abbaye which overlooks the lake." (Page 185) |
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"I drove along the road to Annecy for a mile and then turned left-handed up to the Annecy golf course." (Page 195) | Foyer of L'Auberge du Père Bise in Talloires. "The écrevisses were delicious. So was the omble chevalier poché beurre blanc which followed them." (Page 188) Len Deighton writes in his ABC of French Food (1989), "Over the years [omble chevalier] has become more and more scarce. Nowadays it no longer appears on the menu at L'auberge du Père Bise and the waiter whispers of its arrival." |