I. Avant-propos

Nothing could be more delicious as a préface to this volume than the accompanying Bill of Sale with its stately légal phraseology interwoven with touches of poetic humor. As a matter of fact, however, Daudet never really owned the mill, ^ce qui ne m'empêchait pcLs^^ he says later, **d*y passer de longues Journées de réves^ de souvenirs"

1. Pampérigouste. An imaginary place in Provence. It hère represents the village of Fontvieille, a few miles east of Arles. In Port'Tarascon it figures very prominently as a monastery near Tarascon.

2. le sieur : Master ; as in old English. It is generally équivalent to seigneur and sire, Each of thèse three words has been at some time a title of nobility=s/<^^. But sieur and sire hâve served also as mock titles.

3. 8008 le8 gara]ltie8 de droit Ov de fait : légal and actual ownership guaranteed,