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19 July 2014

9:00 AM

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

 Gstaad

I write this on 14 July, France’s big day and the 25th anniversary of my father’s passing. He died at dawn, on the bicentennial of the uprising, as if he couldn’t bear French triumphalism of the foul event one more second. Actually he had a massive heart attack as he was preparing to go off on his boat.

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