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...Charles Marville’s exquisite prints documented the tearing down of medieval Paris in the 1860s and ’70s and the construction of Haussmann and Napoleon III’s vision for the city as the capital of Europe....
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...The crowd sat and stood on the other side, in Francis Marion Park, named after the “swamp fox” who made life miserable for the British army in the American Revolutionary War....
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