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...McCullough weaves his mini-biographies into an entertaining history of France and the US roughly from the 1830 dawn of the July Monarchy to the early 20th century apogee of the belle époque....
...For example, Hope’s Aurora Room at Duchess Street was a dramatic interpretation of night and day incorporating as a centrepiece John Flaxman’s sculpture of Aurora, Roman goddess of the dawn, and her lover...
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