Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteWhen I visited France in June 1983, I motored with my son to the mountainous fertile Dordogne. Passing along a narrow roadway I saw a magnificent Medieval Château, rising above a small river, very ancient but obviously still inhabited.
We drove closer and found behind it that there was a small attractive village with a lovely twelfth century Church exactly as I have described in this story.
That night we stayed in a very old Château, which had been converted into a hotel. My circular bedroom was in the tower.
It had a beamed ceiling and small windows in a three-foot-thick wall from which there was a panoramic view of the countryside.
Beneath me I was sure that there were dark haunted dungeons!
This story was born before I fell asleep.
Arletta was the name of William the Conqueror’s mother, who came from Normandy, and his grandfather, Duke Rollo, had three sons who became Kings of England.
The Granvilles, who are one of the oldest and most famous families in England, can trace their ancestry directly back to Duke Rollo.
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