Married Across the Color Line - A Postwar True Story

I love it when readers reach out to me about their passion of France and how they are connected to, live in or have experienced l'Hexagone (the popular nickname for mainland France because of the shape of its six sided mainland borders).

Just recently a member of our community, and author, Daniel Freeman, reached out to me about his family history and his book that shares that history. His story and the context of writing the book is extraordinary. At the age of fifty-two and on the passing of his father, Daniel found hundreds of pages of letters between his father, his French mother, US and French governments and lawyers, and family members that crossed continents and borders.  Then at the age of sixty-five Daniel learnt he was a dual French and US Citizen, and then at age seventy-two he received his French passport.  Daniel was seventy-six, when he published his historical family journey. Incredibly this project took thirteen years with Daniel's French sisters providing the translations for the letters and official documents written in French. Wow, what an amazing back story to Married Across the Color Line!