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"Nicolay-Mazery's coy prose and fawning manner can be comical, until she visits the neoclassical Temple of Glory at Orsay, home of the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and his widow, the Hon. Diana Mitford, who were jailed in their homeland during World War II as Nazi sympathizers. The oblivious author makes no mention of any such unpleasantness, and the disloyal chatelaine blithely calls her verdant garden 'my piece of England.'''Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery is the author of 'The Finest Houses Of Paris', published 2000 under ISBN 9780865652170 and ISBN 0865652171.
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