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ROUGET DE LISLE (Claude Joseph). Autograph manuscript...

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ROUGET DE LISLE (Claude Joseph). Autograph manuscript entitled "Is he? Isn't he?". 11 pp. 1/2 in-folio, some erasures and corrections. Account of an involuntary fault which inspires a young girl (Nice) the desire of a voluntary incartade. " ... By the sleep and its imposter dream Nice abused, in all good, all honor, Helps itself to its own defeat, Takes without counting, and returns what one lends to him, And, by three times, the fierce victor Without disarming signals its conquest... "

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