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Dolorism

Robert Tombs

  • Le Monde retrouvó de Louis-François Pinagot: Sur let Traces d’un Inconnu, 1798-1876 by Alain Corbin

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Robert Tombs is a fellow St John’s College, Cambridge and the author of Paris Commune, 1871.

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