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Those Damn, this would make a great movie! moments dont come as often as they used to, but this one struck me as I read the first few pages of John Baxters new Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918: Hoping to lure bombers away from the city, the army was constructing a fake Paris in the sleepy satellite town of Maisons-Laffitte, where a stretch of the Seine resembled the river as it ran through the capital. It included plywood replicas of the Arc de Triomphe and the Opéra, false train tracks, and facsimiles of such industrial suburbs as Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers. Ingerious lighting and translucent paint created the effect of light shining through the dirty glass of factory roofs.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:08:04 +0000

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