Note 2 — Chapter i · THE OLD WEEVILS

It comes from the small neighbouring town of Vaison, where Pliny the naturalist2 sometimes spent a holiday. Here perhaps, at his host’s table, the celebrated compiler learnt to appreciate the Beccafico,3 famous among the Roman epicures and still renowned to-day, under the name of Grasset, among our Provençal gastronomers. It is a pity that my bit of silver says nothing of these events, more memorable than any battle.