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How I Came To Write
“The Canterbury Papers”

I remember well the day I began to tell the story of Alaïs Capet.

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It was a sunny afternoon and we were lodged in the apartment of a friend in Villefranche Sur Mer, around the curve from Nice on the glistening Mediterranean.

This was to be a reading trip. I had just finished a long writing assignment, and wanted to take a rest from writing anything, and so had not even brought my laptop.

But I had been reading history avidly.

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A few years earlier, while browsing in a Washington D.C. bookstore, I had picked up a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. It was not one of the ‘big’ biographies, but it was sufficient to reawaken an interest in the Twelfth Century fin-de-siecle politics and family drama of the ruling houses of the Kings of England and France, an interest which had been stimulated by an early reading of Robin Hood and an early viewing of the film The Crusades.

On this particular afternoon in France, I had