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Hardy rodenstock december 7, 1941 in marienwerder kwidzyn may 19, 2018 in oberaudorf. The rivetingly strange story of the worlds most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have. The french, the nazis, and the battle for frances greatest. It is also the debut of an exceptionally powerful new voice in narrative nonfiction. The rivetingly strange story of the worlds most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. Thomas jefferson, the third president of the united states, had lived in paris from 1784 to 1789 where he served as commissioner and them minister to france.
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