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Our French lineage traces back to 1727. We're leaving

In January 1992, I took my Uncle Ren� to the Bastille. It was our last opportunity to go to the opera. Ren� was about to join his daughter in Israel, ending three centuries of our family's existence as French Jews - Jews who were as proud of their republican heritage as they were meticulous in their�

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Norman Lebrecht is Assistant Editor of London�s Evening Standard and presenter of lebrecht.live on BBC Radio 3. He has written ten books about music, which have been translated into 13 languages. They include the international best-sellers The Maestro Myth and When the Music Stops. His latest book is Conduct Unbecoming: The Classical Commentaries of Norman Lebrecht in Standpoint.

Our French lineage traces back to 1727. We're leaving

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