Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in chapter 10 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:

...ed intention of breaking away from the literary traditions of the East. They did, so far as the Eastern states of North America are concerned; but they did not hesitate to go still farther east, to France and Russia, for their-models. Mr. Garland's earlier tales have much of the ironical compactness of de Maupassant, and Mr. Norris's novels could not have been written but by a worshiper of Zola. ...
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France (France) 17,744 18 0 0 0 user votes
France (Idaho, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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