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50 WOMEN IN FRENCH SWITZERLAND;
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twenty the virtues centuries and vices of study of our and modern experience society , , a and stereotyped by which p it icture will be of
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50 Women In French Switzerland;
50 WOMEN IN FRENCH SWITZERLAND ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/50/
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