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Mémoires de Madame de Staal (mademoiselle Delaunay). A portrait and thirty compositions by C. Delort, engraved in burin and etching by L. Boisson.
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La contre-révolution spontanée. La recherche, la discussion, l'émeute 1899-1939
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