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Photo ZACCARIA, Francesco Antonio. 

ZACCARIA, Francesco Antonio. 

Istituzione antiquario-lapidaria o sia introduzione allo studio delle antiche latine iscrizioni in tre libri proposta. 

Roma, Zempel, 1770.
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100 €

First edition.
Italian book for the good understanding of ancient Latin inscriptions. It contains in particular a list of the Latin abbreviations used on the ancient engraved stones.

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YRWIN, Eyles. 

Voyages à la Mer Rouge, sur les cotes de l'Arabie, en Egypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide. 

Paris, Briand, 1792.
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350 €

Second french edition.
Eyles Yrwin (1751-1817) was an Irish writer who joined the East India Company and then became the Company's superintendent in China.

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WRONSKI, Hoëné. 

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806. 

Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.
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550 €

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

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WEIS, Jean-Martin. 

Représentation des fêtes données par la Ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du Roi; à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville. 

Paris, Aubert, 1744.
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4000 €

Unique edition of the festival celebrating the arrival of Louis XV in Strasbourg in October 1744. Published at the city's expense, the work is composed of a calligraphic title, 20 engr. calligraphic explanation pp.,- an equestrian portrait of Louis XV and 11 etchings on double pages swarming with 1000 lively details (onlookers, dances, acrobats...). They depict the arrival and the procession of the king into the town, the Cardinal of Rohan's welcome in the front of the cathedral, the night festivities (fireworks on the Ill, illuminated buildings) and the day festivities (water jousting, games, dances and sword exercises). Some foxing or otherwise soiled, armorial binding (joint split, sides and corners rubbed...).

Photo [VOLTAIRE]. 

[VOLTAIRE]. 

Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus. 

Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1770.
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200 €

Edition published the same year as the original edition.
Bengesco [II, pp.415-417] comments at length on the difference between this edition and that of Geneva at Robert. The text in Rey's edition goes as far as the hardback edition of the Robert edition except for the last sentence. S

ome hypotheses suggest that it was Diderot who had this Amsterdam edition published, whereas Madame de Caylus's manuscript had been passed from hand to hand for several years. However, a few rare copies have a 22-page notebook with a preface by Voltaire which is absent from our copy [cf. Bengesco].

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[VOLTAIRE]. 

Questions sur l'encyclopédie par des amateurs. 

[Neufchatel], s.n., 1771-1773.
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550 €

New expanded edition.
Little-known book by Voltaire, his Questions on the Encyclopedia having been included in the Philosophical Dictionary of the Kehl edition which now makes reference.
"This attempt with an encyclopedic vocation claims to supplement, even amend and correct the great work of the Age of Enlightenment" (Mervaud, "L’Encyclopédisme des Questions sur l’Encyclopédie de Voltaire?”).

Composite copy with volumes published from 1771 to 1773.

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[VOLTAIRE]. 

L'Homme aux quarante ecus. 

[Genève], s.n., 1768.
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1750 €

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

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VOLTAIRE. 

La Henriade. On y a ajouté la critique de ce poème.
[relié à la suite] :
- Essai sur les Guerres civiles de France. 1729. De Merville , La Haye. 

La Haye, Gosse Néaulme, 1728.
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200 €

First edition in french of the "l'essai sur les guerres civiles de France. ".

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VOLTAIRE. 

Histoire de la guerre de MDCCXLI. 

La Haye, s.n., 1756.
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150 €

Second edition published without the agreement of Voltaire, whose manuscript was stolen from him by the Marquis de Ximénès.

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VIGOUREUX, Clarisse. 

Parole de Providence. 

Paris, Bossange, Novembre 1834.
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3500 €

Scarce first edition of the only work by the first female disciple of Charles Fourier.
Clarisse Vigoureux (1789-1865), born Charlotte-Dorothée-Claire Gauthier, was a fervent follower of Fourier's theories: it was she who introduced Victor Considerant to Fourierism (the latter married his daughter Julie).
She put her personal fortune at the service of the Fourierist cause by financing Phalanges (the journal of Charles Fourier) and later the exile of Considerant and then their attempt to found the Réunion phalanstery in Texas. Ruined, she will end her life alone in San Antonio.

François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial supporter from the Lyon Corporate School in the 1860s.

His work responded to the Words of a Believer, published in April 1834 by Lamennais, in which he promoted violence in the service of the class struggle. Clarisse Vigoureux, deeply pacifist and feminist, will answer him:
"What is this war cry and this reverberation which has been heard on all sides? [...] I ask the stronger sex who knows how to dethrone their kings, and who, calling himself a king, does not know how to hold the reins of the world" (excerpt from the preface)
This book will be condemned by the Roman Church and put in the Index catalog on September 22, 1836.

On the false title we see. finds the following mention written in pencil : "Given by Miss Beuque to Mr Barrier. (April 1845). Aimée Beuque (1788-1871) met Charles Fourier at Clarisse Vigoureux in 1828 and immediately adhered to his ideas, she will lead the Fourierist circles of Lyon. François Barrier, professor of medicine at the Faculty of Lyon, adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1844.

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VIENOT DE VAUBLANC, Vincent Marie (Comte de). 

Mémoires sur la Révolution de France, et recherches sur les causes qui ont amené la révolution de 1789 et celles qui l'onht suivie. 

Paris, G-A Dentu, 1833.
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250 €

First edition.
In a long and eventful career, he was successively a monarchist deputy under the Revolution and during the Directory, proscribed under the Terror, prefect of Napoleon, Minister of the Interior of Louis XVIII and to finish his political life, ultra-royalist deputy.

Photo VEXLIARD, Alexandre. 

VEXLIARD, Alexandre. 

Le Clochard, étude de psychologie sociale. 

Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1957.
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75 €

First edition.
Work which always remains a reference on the question.
Sending of the author to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) economist and politician of which we disperse part of the library.

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VEUILLOT, Louis. 

Jésus-Christ. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1876.
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120 €

Third edition.
Beautiful copy.

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VERTOT, Abbé René Aubert. 

Révolutions de Portugal. 

Paris, Nyon, 1768.
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100 €

Very good copy of this book on the Portuguese Revolution of 1640 whose quality of writing made the success.

Photo VALIN, René-Josué. 

VALIN, René-Josué. 

Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine du mois d'Août 1681. 

La Rochelle, Jerôme Légier, 1766.
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250 €

Second edition.
The great naval ordinance of July 31, 1681, also called the naval code or simply royal ordinance of 1681, also known as Colbert's Ordinance, is a major French royal ordinance drawn up on July 31, 1681 under the reign of Louis XIV, which codifies comprehensively the uses in maritime transport (merchant marine). Inspired by the customs and statutes of the United Provinces (Amsterdam and Antwerp), it was established under the aegis of Colbert; its principles were adopted into positive law in 2006.

Photo [Union agricole d'Afrique]. 

[Union agricole d'Afrique]. 

Ensemble de Documents et brochures sur le phalanstère fouriéristes d'Algerie. 

s.l., s.n., 1845-1850.
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2500 €

The project of the Agricultural Union of Africa was born from the meeting of French colonial interests in Algeria and the Fourierist desire to found a community following the phalansterian principles. These interests came together in Lyon where there was an active Fourierist group with the meeting of Captain Gautier, an officer of the Army of Africa, with Miss Aimée Beuque, a convinced Fourierist.
The project of a civil joint stock company running a colony in Algeria took shape during the year 1845 and the Agricultural Union of Africa was founded in December 1845. Its goal was to experiment with the Fourierist principle of associating capital, labor and talent.
It has thirty-three members including the members of the organizing committee: Fleury Imbert, François Barrier, Felix Beuque and Sister (Aimée), Captain Gautier...
On November 8, 1846, a royal ordinance authorized the Lyon Committee to found a Civil Colonization Society on the condition that it welcome three hundred European families, at least two-thirds of whom must be of French origin. Louis Philippe allocates three thousand hectares to the Union at the foot of the hills of the Sig Valley, eighteen kilometers from the sea, on the road from Oran to Mascara.
The first settlers will settle in Algeria during the year 1847. Gradually losing the Fourierist essence of the beginning, the Sig colony will nevertheless last until the end of the 19th century.

Inthis volume, are bound a series of documents from the organizing committee of the Agricultural Union of Africa:

- Draft Statutes of a Civil Society, For the Exploitation of a Rural Property in Algeria, Lyon, Dumoulin, 1845. 23 pages.
First edition.
One of the first documents relating to the Union. It presents the draft statutes of the company before its foundation, which would not take place until the end of 1845. The document also presents the members of the organizing committee and the list of the first subscribers.

- The Agricultural Union of... Civil joint-stock company for the exploitation of a rural property in Africa, Lyon, Boitel, [1845]. 16 pages.
First edition.
Work of the organizing committee from its formation until October 25, 1845. The end of the document gives the model of the power of attorney to be sent to subscribers for the founding of the company.

- Letter of application for membership, November 1845. 3 pages
Document in civil character probably sent to the subscribers who, on the eve of the filing of the application for a concession, seek to extend the number of concessionaires from ten to twelve people.
"ten to twelve people capable by their wealth and their position of lending us effective support."

- Plan with caption, (nd). (2) folding plates.
Probably the plan of the colony as it was planned in the early days of the project. It shows an enclosure of 400x300 meters grouping together residential and manufacturing buildings.

- Contract of enrollment of associated workers, Lyon, December 15, 1846. 2 pages.
Exceptional document presenting the contract that linked the Union with the associated workers.
Our copy is completed and countersigned by Félix Beuque (member of the board of directors) and Jacob Held, a 36-year-old ploughman and shoemaker from Geneva. Jacob Held commits for one year and becomes a shareholder with 50 francs.

- Pay scale for associated workers and Supplies scale, (nd). (2) pages.
Fascinating document for understanding the internal economy of the Union. Each worker is both an employee and an associate, the salary scale is defined for all hierarchical levels.
It should be noted that while women can claim a maximum of 70% of a man's salary, they can nevertheless access the position of special director of the 1st class (highest position after the General Director). We also see that a salary of 25 francs per year is provided for children from 0 to 5 years old...
On the back, we find the rate for accommodation and full board (with different meal and accommodation options).
Thus, a Worker's Assistant (14th class) will receive 504 francs per year and will spend at least 360 francs on food and 20 francs on accommodation.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique: Extract from the statutes..., Lyon, Boitel, (nd). (4) pages.
Extracts from the statutes and subscription form published after the founding of the civil society.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company for the founding of an agricultural and industrial commune in the Sig plain, in Algeria, province of Oran, Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus presenting the company.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company... Royal concession order. Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus reproducing the royal ordinance of concession granted to the Union.

Bulletin of the Union Agricole d'Afrique :

Bulletin intended for the members of the Union to report on the progress of the project and the first steps of the colony in Algeria.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Proof presenting handwritten corrections that will be corrected in the distributed copy. In particular, the name of the correspondent of the city of Nancy is crossed out.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Printing distributed with the inclusion of the corrections below, a new layout and the addition of the royal ordinance of Louis Philippe granting the concession.
- List of shareholders, Year 1847: 4 pages.
- Bulletin No. 2: Statutes of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 12 pages.
- Bulletin No. 3: Report of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 30-(2) pages.
- Bulletin No. 4: 4 pages and 2 plates.
- Bulletin No. 6: Union agricole d'Afrique: Report on the administration, financial year 1847-1848
(2)-8-60 pages.
- Bulletin No. 7: Union agricole d'Afrique. 4 pages.

- Colonisation du Sig, Réponse à Mr le Maréchal Bugeaud, Oran, 1848. 4 pages. Inserted between bulletins No. 4 and No. 6.
Article taken from the Echo d'Oran in which Captain Gautier responds to Marshal Bugeaud who announced the future fall of the Union in an article in the Revue des deux mondes.

- Bulletin de l'Union du Sig. Tome premier - Septembre 1849 - Aout 1850. 282-xliv-[283-298] pages. The first xliv pages bound after page 282.
First year of publication of the Bulletin of the Union of the Sig which replaced the Bulletin of the Agricultural Union of Africa, to report to the members of the activity of the colony in Algeria.

Photo TURGOT, Anne-Robert-Jacques. 

TURGOT, Anne-Robert-Jacques. 

Le conciliateur, ou lettres d'un ecclésiastique à un magistrat sur les affaires présentes. 

s.l., [s. n.], 1788.
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240 €

Second édition.
Rare copy.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) was an important French politician and economist of the 18th century. He was Secretary of State for the Navy, then Controller General of Finances for King Louis XVI. This text is a plea for religious tolerance, particularly towards Protestants, whose freedoms were reviewed when the text was first published in 1754.

Photo TRONCHAY, Michel. 

TRONCHAY, Michel. 

Vie de M. Lenain de Tillemont, avec des reflexions sur divers sujets de morale, et quelques lettres de pieté. 

Cologne, s.n., 1711.
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150 €

First edition.
Michel Tronchay (1668-1733) was for many years the secretary of the historian Lenain de Tillemont (1637-1698) with whom he worked on his monumental ecclesiastical history.
From this collaboration he draws this book of moral reflections very imbued with Jansenism.

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TRISTAN, Flora. 

L'Union ouvrière. 

Paris, Chez tous les libraires, 1844.
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Second edition.
Flora Tristan (1803-1844), is a French socialist and feminist activist. She is a major figure of utopian socialism in the 1840s, she will take part in the first steps of internationalism. The Workers' Union is her political manifesto in which we find one of the first projects of workers' organization.
Five years before the famous "Proletarians of all countries unite" by K. Marx, Flora Tristan wrote: "Workers, you are weak and unhappy because you are divided; unite; unity is strength"
One of the first feminists of the social movement, she also affirms that woman is the proletarian of the proletarian.
Flora Tristan's work is bound at the end with 12 other Fourierist brochures:

- PELLERIN, Notice sur Charles Fourier et sur sa théorie d'association, (extrait de l'annuaire du Doubs pour 1838). 23 pages.

- CHEVALIER, Le 10 octobre à Lyon (troisième anniversaire de la mort de Ch. Fourier - Compte rendu), Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 33 pages.

- Ecole de Ch. Fourier, Union Phalanstérienne, sl, sd, sn. (2)-vii pages.

- AUCAIGNE, Réalisation en mode transitoire, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 43-(1) pages

- PASSOT, Loi des destinées futures || Mélina B....x, La Fée Sociale, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 36 pages.

- [Un Prêtre catholique romain], Accord des prophéties de l'ancien et du nouveau teastament avec la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 87 pages (salissures sur plusieurs feuillets).

- CHEVALIER, Les 27 et 28 aout à Cluny, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 34 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Compte rendu de l'exposition du système sociétaire de Fourier les 18, 20, 21 et 22 février 1841 dans la salle de la société philharmonique à Dijon ( Extrait du journal de la côte d'or, revu et augmenté de notes). 24 pages.

- FESTEAU, Les Progressives, huit chansons nouvelles et inédites, Paris, Vieillot, sd. 24 pages.

- [CONSIDERANT], Petit cours de politique et d'économie sociale à l'usage des ignorants et des savants, Paris, librairie sociétaire, 1844. 72 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Théorie du Droit de propriété et du Droit au travail,Paris, Librairie phalanstérienne, 1848. 36 pages.

- [Anonyme], Recueil des chants de l'Union industrielle dondée au Palmitar (Brésil), Lyon, Mable ainé, 1842. 11 pages.

Photo TOURNET, Jean. 

TOURNET, Jean. 

Coustumes de la Prevoste et Vicomte de Paris. 

Paris, Gervais Alliot, 1627.
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350 €

Second edition.
The version commented by Jean Tournet of the Coutume de Paris will be the legal reference throughout the seventeenth century.
The Coustumes de Paris, revised in 1605, constitute the body of legal texts which will apply to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Paris (and therefore almost to all of France) until the drafting of the Napoleonic Civil Code. They are, moreover, one of the major sources of inspiration for the Civil Code.

Photo TONNEAU, Alfred. 

TONNEAU, Alfred. 

Au Salève, Souvenirs, Descriptions et Légendes. 

Genève, Ch. Eggimann & Cie, [1897].
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220 €

Numerous photographs by Edmond Meylan in the text.

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THIRION, Henri. 

La vie privée des financiers au XVIIIe siècle. 

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1895.
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45 €

First edition.

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THIERS, Adolphe. 

De la Propriété. 

Paris, Paulin, Lheureux et Cie, 1848.
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80 €

First edition.
Work written in reaction to the revolution of 1848 and the communist ideas that are beginning to emerge.

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THIERRY, Augustin. 

Lettres sur l'Histoire de France, Dix ans d'études historiques. 

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1849.
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50 €

New edition.
Augustin Thierry is one of the first modern historians to work directly on ancient source.

Photo THIERRY, Augustin. 

THIERRY, Augustin. 

Récits des temps mérovingiens précédés de considérations sur l'histoire de France. 

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1864.
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50 €

New edition.
Augustin Thierry is one of the first modern historians to work directly on ancient source.

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THIERRY, Augustin. 

Essai sur l'histoire de la formation et des progrès du Tiers Etat suivi de fragments du recueil des monuments inédits de cette histoire. 

Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie, [v. 1875].
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50 €

Twelfth edition revised and corrected.

Photo [THEATRE]. 

[THEATRE]. 

Arrests du Conseil d'Etat du roi, lettres patentes, acte de société et règlements de messieurs les premiers gentilshommes de la Chambre de roi, concernant les comédiens françois. 

Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1761.
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1500 €

First edition.
Letters patent reorganizing the operation of the troupe of the Comédie Française.

Bound with the following:
"Règlement pour les comédiens françois ordinaires du roi"
Defining article by article, the organization of the troupe of the Comédie Française: schedules, remuneration, rights and duties.

Photo TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de. 

TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de. 

De l'Administration financière telle qu'elle est sous l'influence des préjugés qui en arrêtent le développement, et telle qu'elle pourrait être sous l'empire de la science positive. 

Paris, Cherruliez, 1836.
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200 €

First edition.
Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

Photo TERVER, Pierre. 

TERVER, Pierre. 

L'Isle-Adam au temps de la Révolution française et du Directoire - 1789-1799. 

L'Isle-Adam, Chez l'auteur - Imprimerie de Persan-Beaumont, 1981.
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30 €

First edition.

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TERRIER-SANTANS, Edmond. 

On se bat sur terre. 

Paris, Les Editions de France, 1930.
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30 €
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