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Referenced at the beginning when discussing the film Master and Commander, noting it was 'adapted from the novels of Patrick O'Brien'

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Mentioned when discussing why Asterix wasn't chosen for the list - 'The books are better than the film adaptation' and described as 'very rich and very well historically informed'

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Discussed as the source material for the film La Reine Margot - 'La Reine Margaux is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas'

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Mentioned in passing as another novel by Dumas that 'will be better known in England'

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Referenced when discussing a scene in La Reine Margot where Margot holds her lover's severed head - 'which is lifted from Stendhal's The Scarlet and the Black'

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Discussed extensively as the source novel for the film J'accuse about the Dreyfus affair. Dominic mentions reading it and being so engrossed he read from 6pm to 2am

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Referenced multiple times when discussing the film La Chinoise - 'the whole film is about readings from the little red book' and 'Mao's little red book is everywhere in the apartment'

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Discussed as the literary source for La Chinoise - 'this is modelled on Dostoevsky's great novel The Devils The Possessed' - also mentioned that Margaret Thatcher read and approved of it as a warning against socialism