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Which Norman seaside-resort was described as BALBEC in Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Past Time'? |
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Which of these authors was not only linked by birth to the town of Bordeaux but even became its burgomaster (or: mayor)? |
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Near Macon in Burgundy there is a little village called Milly that became famous because of the poet who lived there.What is the present name of the village? |
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Francois Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand had his residence in the Castle of Combourg. Where in France is that castle? |
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Which North French town was home to Jules Verne, the author of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'? |
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Which French woman-author earned herself a reputation with the letters she wrote to her daughter in the Castle of Grignan in Southern France ? |
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Why is the French author Marcel Jouhandeau rather unpopular in his hometown Gueret in the Creuse department ? |
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Who is the French playwright that called his hometown Bellac (in the Haute Vienne, a department of the Limousin ) 'the prettiest town in France' and made it the scene of some of his plays? |
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Who was the famous occupant of the Castle of Nohant who counted among her close friends: Franz Liszt, Eugene Delacroix, Turgenev, Honore de Balzac, Theophile Gautier and especially Frederic Chopin ? |
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He had a large house at Croisset near the Seine (in Normandy, at a short distance from Rouen.)Guy de Maupassant was one of his closest friends. Of one of his most popular heroines he said that 'she was him'.Who was HE? |
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