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Paris,

so you're fluent, are you? Yeah.

We may have gathered from the music and from Ian's wonderful, fluent French vocabulary.

We are beginning.

We are beginning.

We are beginning today's episode in a city that I know I love,

and I know a lot of our living legends, love to visit again and again. Paris.

It's May 1925. And we're at the Hotel de Criand, on the Chomsalise.

Originally built in 1758, it was a neoclassical design, stone pillars out front, beautiful statues carved into the

facade. The lobby is equally luxurious with giant archways and floor-to-ceiling mirrors, but we're

not in the lobby today. Nor are we in the lavish dining room, the luxury suites or any of the

other fancy facilities. We are in the basement, in a dark, cramped room. A group of six men

are sitting around two tables at the centre, quietly sipping on water. They are Parisian businessmen,

all of whom work in the scrap metal industry. At the head of the table is a serious-looking

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