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A Man and a Woman
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Film |
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Claude Lelouch
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"A Man and a Woman" is set and was filmed in Paris, France |
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A Son at the Front
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Book |
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Edith Wharton
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Paris, WWI, begins 30 July 1914 |
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A Tale of Two Cities (book)
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Book |
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Charles Dickens
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"A Tale of Two Cities" is set in Paris, France, 1775 to 1792 |
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Alcools
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Poems |
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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Zone, a poem in Alcools, is about Paris |
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Amelie
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Film |
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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"Amelie" leads her own whimsical adventure in Paris, France. |
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An American in Paris
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Orchestral Composition |
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George Gershwin
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The musical score for an American in 1920s Paris |
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An Andalusian Dog
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Film |
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Salvador Dali
Luis Bunuel
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"Un Chien Andalou" was filmed in Paris at the Billancourt studios |
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Asphodel
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Book |
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H D
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Babylon Revisited (short story)
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Short Story |
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Babylon Revisits Paris and the Ritz bar. |
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Bel-Ami
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Book |
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Guy de Maupassant
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In "Bel Ami", Georges Duroy is a journalist in Paris, France. |
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Belle de Jour
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Film |
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Luis Bunuel
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"Belle de Jour" is set and was filmed in Paris, France, 1967 |
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Black Spring
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Book |
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Henry Valentine Miller
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Setting |
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Bob the Gambler
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Film |
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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Bob lives in the Montmartre district of Paris |
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Celine and Julie Go Boating
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Film |
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Jacques Rivette
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In "Celine and Julie Go Boating", Julie follows Celine around Paris, including Montmartre and the fictional 7 bis, rue du Nadir-aux-Pommes (film at 7 avenue de Bretigny in Garches) |
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Chariots of Fire
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Film |
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Hugh Hudson
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1924 Summer Olympics, Paris |
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Chronicle of a Summer
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Film |
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Edgar Morin
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"Chronicle of a Summer" was filmed in Paris, France. After 1946 or 1947, Marceline spent most of her time drifting in Saint-Germain-des-Pres, especially at the Old Navy cafe at 150 Blvd Saint Germain, as part of a society of loners who aren't integrated. |
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Cleo from 5 to 7
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Film |
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Agnes Varda
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"Cleo from 5 to 7" is set in Paris, 1960s |
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Daybreak
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Film |
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Marcel Carne
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"Daybreak" is set in Paris, France |
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Dodsworth
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Book |
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Sinclair Lewis
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The Dodsworths spend quite a bit of time in Paris. |
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Exercises in Style
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Book |
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Raymond Queneau
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"Exercises in Style" is set on a bus in Paris |
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Fantomas
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Book |
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Marcel Allain
Pierre Souvestre
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Free Man in Paris
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Song |
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Joni Mitchell
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"Free Man in Paris" was inspired by Joni Mitchell's trip to Paris with music agent David Geffen they made with Robbie (Canadian musician) and Dominique Robertson. |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Film |
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Howard Hawks
Marilyn Monroe
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Filmed in Hollywood, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is set in Paris. |
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Gigi (1958 film)
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Film |
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Vincente Minnelli
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"Gigi" is set in Paris, 1900 |
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Good Morning, Midnight
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Book |
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Jean Rhys
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Setting, 1930s |
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Hallucinating Foucault
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Book |
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Patricia Dunker
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"Hallucinating Foucault" is set in Paris, France |
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How the Brigadier Slew the Brothers of Ajaccio (Short Story)
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Short Story |
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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How the Brigadier Was Tempted by the Devil (Short Story)
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Short Story |
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Hugo
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Film |
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Irreversible
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Film |
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Gaspar Noe
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"Irreversible" takes place during one tragic night in Paris. |
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La boheme
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Song |
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Charles Aznavour
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The bohemian life, "La Boheme" is set in Montmartre |
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La Vie en Rose (film)
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Film |
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Olivier Dahan
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"La Vie en Rose" is set in Paris |
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La vie en rose (song)
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Song |
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Edith Piaf
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Paris |
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Le Pere Goriot
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Novel |
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Honore de Balzac
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"Le Pere Goriot" begins in June 1819, following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, after the House of Bourbon had been restored to the throne of France. |
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Le Pont des Arts
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Painting |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pont des Arts, pedestrian bridge crosses the Seine at the Louvre, perspective of painting is from W of bridge on Port des Saints-Peres, looking E toward the Institut de France |
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Les Vampires
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Film |
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Louis Feuillade
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"Les Vampires" is set in Paris, France |
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Morning in Paris
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Painting |
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Pierre Bonnard
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Locale |
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Non, je ne regrette rien
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Song |
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Edith Piaf
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Paris |
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Orphans of the Storm (1921)
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Film |
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D W Griffith
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Henriette takes her sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding .... |
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Our Lady of the Flowers
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Book |
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Jean Genet
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Setting |
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Playtime
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Film |
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Jacques Tati
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Setting and Filming Location |
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Portraits of Places
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Book |
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Henry James
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Travelogue |
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Private Lives
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Play |
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Noel Coward
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Setting |
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Reveries of a Solitary Walker
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Memoir |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In "Reveries of a Solitary Walker", Swiss-born philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau describes his wanderings around Paris during the end of his life. |
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Shoot the Piano Player
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Film |
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Francois Truffaut
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Setting and Filming Location |
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Suite Francaise
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Book |
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Irene Nemirovsky
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"Storm in June", the first novel in "Suite Francaise" is set in Paris, June 1940 |
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The American (book)
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Novel |
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Henry James
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American businessman, Christopher Newman, makes a Grand European Tour. |
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The Autoboigraphy of Alice B Toklas
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Book |
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Gertrude Stein
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"The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas" is set in Paris, 1903-1907 |
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The Bald Soprano
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Play |
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Eugene Ionesco
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Plays in permanent repertory at Theatre de la Huchette, Paris |
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The Bourne Identity
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Film |
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Doug Liman
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Film location |
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The Bourne Ultimatum
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Film |
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Paul Greengrass
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Film location |
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The Bridal Party (short story)
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Short Story |
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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The Bridal Party's imminent marriage is to be held in Paris at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, Avenue George-Cinq. The date is two weeks off, early in June. |
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The Enormous Room
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Book |
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E E Cummings
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Setting |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Book |
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Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in Paris, 6 January 1482 |
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The Inferno
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Book |
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Henri Barbusse
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Set in a Parisian hotel room |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret (book)
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Book |
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Brian Selznick
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Hugo Cabret lives in a Paris train station, most likely the old Gare Montparnasse (demolished 1969) |
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The Last Metro
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Film |
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Francois Truffaut
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"Le Dernier Metro" is set in Nazi German occupied Paris, Second World War |
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The Last Seance (short story)
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Short Story |
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Agatha Christie
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Raoul Daubreuil crosses the Seine humming a little tune to himself. In due course he reaches the Cardonet and turns in at the door of No 17. |
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Short Story)
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Short Story |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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In Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Rue Morgue is a fictional street in Paris, France. |
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The Mystery of Marie Roget (short story)
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Short Story |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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This event occurred about two years after the atrocity in the Rue Morgue. Marie, who lived with her mother Estelle Roget in the Rue Pavee Saint Andree, worked for a perfumer who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal. |
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The Red and the Black (novel)
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Epic Novel |
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Stendhal
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Book II: Julien Sorel lives in Paris. |
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The Strange Case of Peter the Lett
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Book |
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Georges Simenon
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In "The Strange Case of Peter the Lett" Police Detective Jules Maigret is after international fraudster Peter the Lett in Paris, 1920s. |
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The Sun Also Rises
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Book |
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Ernest Hemingway
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The Supper at Elsinore (short story)
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Short Story |
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Karen Blixen
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Baron von Brackel tells a story about an encounter in Paris, France. |
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The Three Musketeers
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Book |
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Alexandre Dumas
Auguste Maquet
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Set in Paris, France, 1625 |
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Too Early, Too Late
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Film |
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Daniele Huillet
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"Too Early, Too Late" was filmed in Paris, Summer 1980 |
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Trilby
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Book |
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George du Maurier
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"Trilby" is set in Paris's Bohemian Latin Quarter, 1860s |
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Tropic of Cancer
|
Book |
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Henry Valentine Miller
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"Tropic of Cancer" is set in Paris, 1930s |
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You Can't Go Home Again
|
Book |
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Thomas Wolfe
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Setting |
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Zazie in the Metro
|
Book |
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Raymond Queneau
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"Zazie in the Metro" is set in Paris |
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Zero for Conduct
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Film |
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Jean Vigo
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Setting |
