To the Editor:
In 2013, then mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio cited the Charles Dickens masterpiece “A Tale of Two Cities” to compare New York City to the squalor, hunger and economic warfare in Paris that led to the storming of the jail “the Bastille” in 1789, marking the birth of the French Revolution.
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