France in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

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Paris
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2482
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1288
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Temple spends a "year in Europe, Paris," and she and Gowan are married at the American Embassy there (121). The Crillon, where their reception is held, a luxury hotel which opened in Paris in 1909. The palace at Versailles, near Paris, is also mentioned in the novel as a facetious standard of comparison for the massive house that the "Paris architect" builds for Sutpen (32).

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Continuous
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European City

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