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The world's greatest artists aren't supposed to have their work overlooked or unattributed, but it happens more than you might think.

Books can be magical things, but some as it turns out, may be more magical than others. They might look like ordinary old books, but they're hiding a curious little secret in plain sight.

Forget Hemingway. I’ve fallen for a chivalrous musketeer in Saint Germain! In a brand new episode of our web series “Don’t be a Tourist”, we’ll discover a time-capsule fencing club wherein I develop a crush on my charming fencing master, followed by a culinary joy ride into the world of frogs legs.

Parisians often talk about the great travesty that was the loss of Les Halles, a legendary food market in the heart of Paris, fondly referred to as “the belly of Paris”, a seemingly indestructible monument to the great tradition of French markets. It was demolished in 1971 and the hub of all food distribution in the city was moved to a more practical site in the suburbs, next to an airport, much to the chagrin of the Parisian working class. But what about the great loss of Paris’ wine village? Once the largest wine market in the world, a forty-two hectare time capsule of 18th & 19th century Parisian village life, entirely wiped out in the 1980s– why don’t we talk about that?

He was so good at imagining overly complicated and outlandish contraptions that his name became part of the English dictionary in the early 20th century to describe anything with an unnecessarily elaborate design.

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