Rite Of Love
October, 1968
Rite of LoveAfter Balthazar's father died his mother moved from the big house off Avenue Foch to a sprawling apartment overlooking the gardens of the Palais Royal. Miss Hortense the English governess with her tall flowing gay willing way came each Christmas. Easter and summer holiday. Taking Balthazar back and forth to Paris from the green zar back and forth to Paris from the green low hills of England and the echoing classrooms of school. While his mother went hither and thither to Baden Baden,...