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  2. Paris (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Paris is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd published in 2013, which charts the history of Paris from 1261 to 1968. The novel follows six core families [ 1 ] set in locales such as Montmartre , Notre Dame and Boulevard Saint-Germain . [ 2 ]

  3. A Tale of Two Cities - Wikipedia

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    A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A place in Angola that has the most consecutive vowels in a row of any other place name Cave-In-Rock: Even though people find rocks in caves, this town in southern Illinois says otherwise. It's named from the state park of the same name, which features a cave. Celebration: A community developed by Disney near Walt Disney World.

  5. This Paris book market has been here for 450 years. Now it’s ...

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    Paris booksellers have sold their wares on the banks of the Seine for 450 years, but now their famous green boxes are set to be moved to allow for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics.

  6. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    Various Oz Books: The Emerald City is the capital of the Land of Oz. It is entirely (in the first books) or mostly (in later books) green. The city is made of green glass, emeralds, and other jewels. Emminster, South Wessex Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy's Wessex: Correlates to the real-life Beaminster, Dorset. Emond's Field Robert Jordan: New Spring

  7. Paris (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Paris Group of French nuclear scientists 1939–40, see Tube Alloys; Paper Aircraft Released Into Space, aviation project.paris, an Internet top-level domain for the city of Paris, France; Paris, a variant of the AMD Sempron computer processor; Paris biota, a diverse, Early Triassic aged fossil assemblage discoverd in Paris Canyon, Idaho

  8. 15 Amazing Places in Paris to Add to Your Travel Itinerary - AOL

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    Place de la Concorde is the other of Paris’s most postcard-famous public squares whose nucleus is a phallic monument. The 75-foot Luxor obelisk, made in ancient Egypt of pink granite and ...

  9. Bouquinistes - Wikipedia

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    Vintage postcard of Paris. Motive: "Eiffel Tower stool" on the bouquinistes banks of the Seine in Paris, 1973. Installed along more than three kilometers of the Seine and declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, the 240 bouquinistes make use of 900 "green boxes" to house some 300,000 old books and a very great number of journals, stamps and ...