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  1. David McCullough _ The Greater Journey: Americans

    It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities." - Victor Hugo
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  2. David McCullough _ The Greater Journey: Americans

    George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience-which is sometimes a great help-and a strong desire to be my very best.
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  3. David McCullough _ The Greater Journey: Americans

    Many of them were familiar from childhood with the fables of La Fontaine. Or they had read Voltaire or Racine or Molière in English translations. But that was about the sum of any familiarity they had with French literature. And none, of course, could have known in advance that the 1830s and '40s in Paris were to mark the beginning of the great era of Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand, and Baudelaire, not to say anything of Delacroix in painting or Chopin and Liszt in music.
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