Amazon.com description: Product Description: The gift that is as handsome, as alluring, as fine as France—and the expected staple is now in its seventeenth year. The well-appointed date book, French Country Diary captures, in every detail, the irresistible feeling the French call coup de foudre—“love at first sight.” Smartly designed and featuring the exuberant Souleiado patterns of Provençal fabrics, The French Country Diary is a cornucopia of sumptuous images: châteaux and hamlets and the cragged, sunbleached south. Rustic armoirs and a rose-strewn fountain. Rambling pink bougainvillea, chalkboard menus, a table dressed in rich yellows and reds, stately cypress trees, fresh-cut lavender, a glittering view of the Mediterranean. Spend a year in France.