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- ...that the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne (pictured) houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution?
- ...that "Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?
- ...that Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
- ...that the expression "simon-pure", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre's 18th century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife?
- ...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?