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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Penn State University Press
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Pages: 358
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-26 - Publisher: Penn State Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
The image of the debauched French aristocrat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one that still has power over the international public imagination,
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