Saturday, May 28, 2011

madeleines and a cup of tea - excerpt from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past

http://www.fisheaters.com/proust.html

Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...