Word: haut
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...make the reader feel a part of it. ("When I was investigating General Mercier, the Minister of War who was responsible for the original condemnation of Dreyfus and who in the course of the Affair became the hero of the Right, I discovered that at parties of the haut monde ladies rose to their feet when General Mercier entered the room. That is the kind of detail which to me is worth a week of research.") The result of her research, her patience and talent is history, but history that often "evokes" as much as it "tells...