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The Land of Desire: French History and Culture by Diana Stegall

Oct 31, 201957:09Society & Culture

Why is it that knowing how to remain alone in Paris for a year in a miserable room teaches a man more than a hundred literary salons and forty years’ experience of ‘Parisian life’? ― Albert Camus, diary entry, 1940 It’s...

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