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New York Times contributor/former Paris bureau chief and best selling author Elaine Sciolino launched her new book, The Seine: The River that Made Paris, at a French Heritage Society event at board member Ann Van Ness and her husband William’s Upper East Side townhouse.

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Ann Van Ness and Bill Van Ness

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Ann Van Ness, Luis Garcia Flores, Elaine Olban, Lee Fryd, Guy Robinson, and Elizabeth Stribling

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Patricia Shiah and Thomas Shiah

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James Scott, Lisa Witomski, and Rick Boldini

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Kathy Irwin, Odile De Schiétère-Longchampt, and Iris Schwartz

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Kathy Irwin and Mai Hallingby

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Elizabeth Stribling and CeCe Black

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Elaine Sciolino

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Gigi Fisdell, Carole Bellidora Westfall, and Friederike Moltmann

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Elaine Olban, Caroline Bassett, and Jennifer Herlein

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Guy Robinson and Paul Stuart Rankin

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Judy McLaren, Jennifer Herlein, and Elizabeth Stribling

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Ann Van Ness and Elaine Sciolino