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A Case of Curiosities Author: In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, a... more »
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While it took a bit to get into the book, once I did it was an engaging read. The amount of detail the author provides in amazing - obviously an incredible amount of research went into the book, and his frequent use of the word "pedantic" (and its variants) could be used to describe the author. Overall an entertaining book.
strange but captivating story
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