The Daguerreotype


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Illustrates the development and rapid spread of Louis Daguerre's photographic invention in France by a variety of daguerreotypes drawn from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.




The Acharnians


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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.




The French Academy


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The essays in this volume grew out of a symposium at the University of Maryland's Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.




Alderdene


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The Forty-Third


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Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, sculptures par Houdon, Clodion ... tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, dépendant de la succession de feue Madame la Comtesse de Montesquiou-Fezensac, et dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot, Salle no 8 les lundi 29, mardi 30 et mercredi 31 janvier 1872 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de MM. Francis Petit et Charles Mannheim, experts ...


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