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Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

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Criss-crossing Europe in pursuit of pleasure, Casanova acquired almost as many passport stamps as he did notches on his bedpost, discovers Deborah Nicholls-Lee

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