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The Brand New York Times best-seller: the strategies of the Town of Sunshine, unveiled in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the writer of the acclaimed The Breakthrough of France.This may be the London you won't ever understood. From the Revolution to the current, Graham Robb has distilled a number of amazing accurate stories, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the overlooked. The courtesans are observed disapprovingly by a young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais - Royal, plying their business. His eye is caught by a particular woman; nature got its course.