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I'd probably rate this book a 4.5 rating. This book tells the story of the ex-patriot community in Paris from 1830-1900. In the process, it also gives a pretty good picture of Parisian history, of the Louvre and its aspiring artists, of the medical community and its practices, even a bit of its political history with the Second Empire and Napoleon III. Betcha didn't know that the Empress was smuggled out of France safely by an American! There are lots of interesting tidbits of well-known people-
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Apr 04, 2012
Janet Smith
marked it as to-read
