Leader of the French Romantic movement, his greatest novel "Les Miserables, " was published in 1862.

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The Jardin du Luxembourg is no hidden gem, but the elegant park does loom large in the novel's main romantic narrative it's where Marius and Cosette meet, fall in love and rendezvous near the Rue de l'Ouest, now known as Rue d'Assas, in the park's southwest corner.

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There hasn't been a movie about architecture with this much popular appeal since that masterpiece of Hollywood kitsch, "The Fountainhead, " in which Gary Cooper played Howard Roark, the terminally romantic, fictional architect-hero of Ayn Rand's novel.

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There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".

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