Two To Ponder

[highbury57]

King's kind of umbrella(8) *A***E*E
and One in a row after a day at Versailles(8) *O*R***N
Is the second one fourteen after the peace points by Woodrow Wilson. not disappointed if not.If it is can't gloss it...
Ideas?

[Mamyalynne]

The Japanese Umbrella
And Other Stories
Collection by Francis King
1964

[highbury57]

so it's not fourteen, then!

[fiction-factory]

I think Mamya's answer just relates to the first clue

[Captain2]

Would have thought (2) started with JOUR (a day in Versailles), but.....

[Mamyalynne]

Jour D a in

[highbury57]

thanks for Jourdain. Fiction Factory, I realised it was only the first clue but with the second A in Japanese it did rule out fourteen! D'uh!