Mont Saint-Michel has been attracting pilgrims, tourists, and royalty for almost 1300 years to a desolate location on the coast of Normandy.
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Throughout the 1700s, Russia competed with the other great empires of Europe to develop geopolitical power and become a world leader. Living in the dreary capital of Moscow, Russian czars envied the great palaces of the French royalty in Versailles, the Ottomans in Istanbul and the Hapsburgs in Vienna.
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