Atlantic Trivia: France (Yay!) and Belgium (Boo!)

France will forever be in the United States’ good books; Belgium—you’re on probation.

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What Paris landmark is the invite-only final resting place of French national heroes including Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie?

It shares its name with an ancient temple in Rome.

And by the way, did you know that occasionally, while writing, Victor Hugo would lock away his clothes and wrap himself instead in a shawl so that he would not be tempted to go out into Paris until he had completed a satisfactory number of pages?

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And Hugo, apparently, was very tempted. He was famously among the Paris brothels’ best customers, and when he died, according to some gossip preserved forevermore by a contemporary critic, the women therein draped themselves in black crepe in mourning.

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