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Blanca, a ghost who haunts one of these buildings, falls in love with a visiting author in Nell Stevens’s novel Briefly, A Delicious Life. An author described boarding a steamboat carrying 100 pigs in a rush to leave one of these buildings, which worsened a man’s tuberculosis, in a travelogue framed as though she were a male friend of her real-life lover. George Sand recounted living with Frédéric Chopin in one of these buildings in A Winter in Majorca. The protagonist of a novel (-5[1])titled for one of these buildings escapes the Farnese tower with the help of his aunt Gina, (10[1])who is the Duchess of Sanseverina and has an affair with Count Mosca. After falling in love with Clélia Conti, who dies in childbirth, Fabrice del Dongo retires to one of these buildings. For 10 points, a Stendhal novel is titled for what type of building in Parma? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: a charterhouse [or Carthusian monastery; or chartreuse; or cartuja; or cartoixa; accept La Chartreuse de Parme or The Charterhouse of Parma or Cartoixa de Valldemossa or Charterhouse of Valldemossa; prompt on palace by asking “what was the palace converted into?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sam Macchi (DII)VassarHaverford83-5
Eshan Pant (DII)NYU AColumbia A10010
Ethan Furman (DII)HaverfordVassar14910

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