PARIS TRIANGLE

About the Book

This book relates a love story between an American Professor of history, Chris, and an English lady, Valerie he meets while she is on vacation in Paris. She is an aspiring painter working in a London book store to make ends meet. They are both nearing forty and decide to do a trip to Burgundy where Chris wants to study the local wines for a book he plans to write. After that Chris begins to teach American history at the Institut d'Anglais for French students studying English. There he meets a French lady, Claudia, who he likes very much. Valerie becomes jealous of that and Chris with the numerous flirtations Valerie likes to do, which explains the title, Paris Triangle..

Chris also becomes friends with a pilot of Air France, Francois, and they fly around Paris together in his small plane. . There are stories about the adventures and love affairs of Francois.

Chris and Valerie make a small trip to Belgium for the Christmas holiday and a longer one to Rome for the Easter holidays. Towards the end of the book Chris does a bike trip through southwestern France with Claudia and her new boy friend, Guy.

Returning from that trip, Chris decides he only wants to be with Valerie and talks her into returning to New York with him where he will resume his teaching job at Baruch College. The book ends with their boarding the Air France flight to New York.

About the Author

This book narrates a love story set in Paris between two English speaking people, an American Professor of History and an English lady who is an aspiring artist making ends meet by working in a London bookstore. They meet when she is on vacation in Paris and he doing an exchange teaching program at a unit of the University of Paris. I have lived close to eight years in Paris with frequent trips to the countryside as well as to Belgium and Italy, two countries visited by the lovers. They both like to flirt, and Chris the American briefly falls for a French colleague teaching in his college, and hence the title, Paris Triangle. I grew up in Virginia and did my BA at Yale. Then I entered the Air Force and got my wings as a pilot in the USAF. I loved flying and later wrote a hisrory of aviation, titled Mastering the Sky. In my last place of assignment as a pilot I met and married a lady and we married. We had three daughters and an interesting if sometimes stormy marriage. After that marriage ended I decided to write a book on the Vietnam wars. I started that book in 1976 and was able to get numerous spring leaves to research it and begin writing it in Paris. I met and married a French lady there and we had two more daughters. One of them lives in Paris and the other with her four sisters in America. After my Vietnam book I decided to write the history of aviation referred to above. It became my fourth book of nonfiction after two histories related to Chinese Communism and the Vietnam book. I retired from teaching history at Hunter College and then decided I would like to write some fiction. The submitted memoir novel is the result of that. Presently I live on the mid west side of Manhattan and see my daughters regularly. My lady friend whom I have known and loved for many years lives with her aged mother. But we love each other and see each other as often as possible..