At dawn on a Sunday in August 1976, when most of Paris was fast asleep or away on holiday, Claude Lelouch climbed into a Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9. For the next eight minutes and five seconds, the director of A Man and a Woman and Live for Life flew through Paris at speeds of up to 140 mph, from Porte Dauphine to Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Montmartre. [Phot…
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