Olympos

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Jean-Daniel Breque for his permission to use the details of one of his favorite walks down the avenue Daumesnil and the rest of that Promenade Plantée. A full description of this delightful walk can be found in Jean-Daniel’s essay “Green Tracks” in the Time Out Book of Paris Walks, published by Penguin.

I also would like to thank Professor Keith Nightenhelser for his suggestion of the Renoir-as-Creator quote from The Guermantes Way.

Finally, I would like to thank Jane Kathryn Simmons for permission to reprint her poem “Still Born” as it appears on p. 571.