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Rewriting French History

Sam White Paris A few books published in Paris this year have helped to clear away many cobwebbed misconceptions about the recent and less recent history of France. It is......

Traditional Values In Rome

Peter Nichols Rome Some Italians still eat eel on Christmas Eve. Some never did, or have given it up because eels somehow seem out of place in the sort of Christmas the......