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Copyright © 2016 by Eleanor Brown

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Brown, Eleanor, author.

Title: The light of Paris / Eleanor Brown.

Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016009821| ISBN 9780399158919 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399573736 (ePub) | ISBN 9780399576980 (international)

Subjects: LCSH: Married women—Fiction. | Self-realization in women—Fiction. | Self-actualization (Psychology) in women—Fiction. | Paris (France)—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Family Life.

Classification: LCC PS3602.R6965 L54 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016009821

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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