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The most famous is called the Travel in France with Two Children,
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in which two brothers promise their father on
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his deathbed that they will see France.
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And it was the biggest selling book, outside of the Bible,
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in nineteenth-century France;
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and they go around in this very banal, boring book,
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and they see people all wearing different costumes,
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and eating different things, and doing different work,
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but their hearts all pound the same way,
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and they're practically in tears and a state of collapse
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when they imagine Alsace-Lorraine,
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and these Alsatian young women dressed in Alsatian costumes,