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I'm John Batch from this CBS Eye on the World and I'm speaking with the novelist, the

first novelist, J.H. Galarunter. His new book is Hold Fast. It is a fixed work of fiction

about a hero who is an intelligence officer with the Royal Marines serving the crown in

London in the period 1803. This is now 1803, the spring of 1803. Again, we're not giving

the plot away, but there are wonderful characters. There's lots of happenstances. There's a great

deal of violence and excitement. Then there is Paris. Josh, take us into Paris as you introduce

Thomas Gray. This is the period when they're no longer executing a aristocrats. They're

coming back. What did Paris resemble at the time in your presentation? What did Gray

meet? Well, Paris was sort of on the upswing again. Napoleon, sort of like,

Mussolini wanted to get the train run on time. Napoleon really wanted to get Paris back

to being the prestigious European city that it had been prior to the revolution. He

was cleaning everything up. He had just raised the slum neighborhoods that ran next to

the Lou and the Twilleries. He's building the first or is just built the first iron bridge

across the Sun. He's reorganizing the city into carefully numbered postal codes. At the

same time, he's reestablishing a connection between the French government and the Catholic

Church, which had been bitterly oppressed under the sort of anti-religious views of

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