Cerf-volant

I suddenly had this flashback of a memory. I had a Peanuts cartoon book in French, maybe when I was 13 or 14. Charlie Brown was flying his kite, which inevitably the tree would eat up.  I learned words in French from it, like cerf-volant.  

Maybe somewahat later, I had a book of poems by Paul Valéry.  I was thinking of the young park as a young park, not a young Parque.