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Title: Vive la France!
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander), 1879-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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