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"title": "France at the Dawn of Photography",
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"did_you_know": "Paris is known as the City of Light because it was one of the first cities to install street lights\u2014oil lamps in the 1660s.",
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"description": "In the 1800s, gas lamps replaced the oil lights. When Napoleon III commissioned a new opera house in Paris in 1860, it was surrounded by a \u201cRing of Light,\u201d including this column with three gas streetlights. The opera house became the setting for Gaston LeRoux\u2019s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, which inspired the 1976 musical and 2004 film.",
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \"Remembrance of Things Past.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 49, no. 9 (November 2009): 3-5.",
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