Le Gai Savoir

June 10, 2004 | This article appeared in the June 28, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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"Paris is a very old story," Henry James wrote in 1878--so old, in fact, that it's hard to write about it without falling into clichés about chestnut trees, couture, freedom and

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