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FROM: "Gisele Tremblay" <gisele_tremblay@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/10/01, 3:38 PM

Well, a client asked to find out a book he read few months ago, but I can't
find anything with the title neither author he thinks he remembers. It was
fiction short stories, the title goes something like "The most important
twelve minutes of history". The client believe that the author is Nabokov,
but finds nothing when searching by author.

The book is a collection of stories about significant moments in the history
of humanity. One deals with the Battle of Waterloo. Another tells how
Handel composed the Messiah. Still another discusses the dicovery of the
Pacific. Another recounts the settlement of California. The last story
which the client recalls has to do with the eents leading up to the writing
of the Marseillaise and its immediate success.

Does anyone know that book? Thanks.

Gisele Tremblay
Montreal Municipal Library
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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FROM: "Gisele Tremblay" <gisele_tremblay@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/10/01, 3:49 PM

Well, a client asked to find out a book he read few months ago, but I can't
find anything with the title neither author he thinks he remembers. It was
fiction short stories, the title goes something like "The most important
twelve minutes of history". The client believe that the author is Nabokov,
but finds nothing when searching by author.

The book is a collection of stories about significant moments in the history
of humanity. One deals with the Battle of Waterloo. Another tells how
Handel composed the Messiah. Still another discusses the dicovery of the
Pacific. Another recounts the settlement of California. The last story
which the client recalls has to do with the eents leading up to the writing
of the Marseillaise and its immediate success.

Does anyone know that book? Thanks.

Gisele Tremblay
Montreal Municipal Library
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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FROM: "Michalik" <michalik@lynchburg.net>
REC'D: 2/10/01, 4:11 PM

Could this be "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 years of Western cultural life,
1500 to the present" by Jacques Barzun?

Candice Michalik
Reference Librarian
Lynchburg Public Library
Lynchburg, VA
michalik@lynchburg.net

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From: Gisele Tremblay <gisele_tremblay@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: history of humanity


> Well, a client asked to find out a book he read few months ago, but I
can't
> find anything with the title neither author he thinks he remembers. It
was
> fiction short stories, the title goes something like "The most important
> twelve minutes of history". The client believe that the author is
Nabokov,
> but finds nothing when searching by author.
>
> The book is a collection of stories about significant moments in the
history
> of humanity. One deals with the Battle of Waterloo. Another tells how
> Handel composed the Messiah. Still another discusses the dicovery of the
> Pacific. Another recounts the settlement of California. The last story
> which the client recalls has to do with the eents leading up to the
writing
> of the Marseillaise and its immediate success.
>
> Does anyone know that book? Thanks.
>
> Gisele Tremblay
> Montreal Municipal Library
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
>
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