The heavy mahogany doors of the Duc de Crillon Suite clicked shut, plunging the palatial penthouse into blissful, candlelit silence. Outside, the City of Light was illuminated under a midnight sky. The golden lattice of the Eiffel Tower sparkled with its hourly burst of thousands of dancing diamonds, casting warm amber reflections across the dark surface of the Seine and the grand monuments of Place de la Concorde. Autumn fog…
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