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In the Vosges mountains of Lorraine, just outside Alsace and thirty miles from the spa town of Plombières, the village of Granpere lies along a road built during the Napoleonic era. The thoroughfare connects Remiremont on one railway line to Colmar on another, illustrating how the Empire improved connectivity in this region.
First publish date: 1872
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: Anthony Trollope
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