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Get ready for a personal encounter with police inspectors and filles &agrave; la cuisse l&eacute;g&egrave;re, Impressionists and art thieves, collaborators and r&eacute;sistants, Cubists and anarchists, artists&rsquo; models and terrorists, criminals and executioners.<br \/>\nIn fascinating and often unknown stories, such as &lsquo;The Chanel-Wertheimer Case&rsquo;, &lsquo;Lenin&rsquo;s Yellow Jersey&rsquo; and &lsquo;Selling the Eiffel Tower&rsquo;, hundreds of Parisian souls are brought back to life behind the fa&ccedil;ades, in the passages, and along the avenues and boulevards of the City of Light. <br \/>\nIn <strong><em>Paris Souls<\/em><\/strong>, readers taste the idiosyncratic harvest of someone who, after many seasons in his favorite city, is still enraptured by its fruits. Dirk Velghe recounts facts and stories about the extraordinary people and events that colored Paris, sometimes with paint, sometimes with blood. Histories as only a true Parisian can tell them. 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