What the Dates Say

Sancerre is a village set on a knoll, which you can see from a long way off and from which you can see a long way, which is enough to explain why there has been a village on that spot for two thousand years.

Jeanne Ancelin lived there from 1954 to 2010.

Judith came for two weeks in July until she was fifteen. She remembers a steep staircase, a cellar smell, a waxed table, a two-tier dresser, and her grandmother writing in the evening in a cloth-bound notebook with the help of a ruler.

She remembers above all that her grandmother did not love them in the same way, her sister and herself, and made no secret of it.