“... with editorials, articles, broadcasts, appeals explaining to the French that they faced the brown peril and must now rally as one to Chirac, if the Republic was to be saved. Youth demonstrated in the streets, the official left rushed to the side of the president, even much of the far left decided it was the moment of no pasarán, and they too must ...”

“... to live in a cottage on South Street with a view of the magnificent cathedral directly across the brown curving river. For many years, into my early twenties, I was encouraged by my parents to ‘keep up with old Grove’ – to visit him at his cottage during the holidays. I’d hand him a tin of his favourite Three Nuns pipe tobacco. Then the two of us ...”