This exquisite volume beautifully reproduces and insightfully examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts.

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Explores how living in Paris shaped the literary works of five expatriate Americans: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dju

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