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Patrick O’Higgins’s birth in Paris has an almost Whartonesque quality: he was Irish on his philandering father’s side, rich French and patrician American on his mother’s … and born in a mansion off the Avenue Kléber.
While the wave of new art, music, literature and fashion had just broken over an essentially 18th-century-embalmed France, it was still the Seizième, elderly