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Your support makes all the difference.In 1785, the young Norman engineer Baratte oversees the clearance of the fetid cemetery of Les Innocents in Paris and the transfer of its huddled dead to Porte d'Enfer.
As the corpses move, visitors "strain for metaphor" and strive "to see all France in this caravan of bones". That was the risk for Andrew Miller in his Costa "Book of the Year": to bury period and place beneath hindsight and allegory.
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