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A33374 An account of the persecutions and oppressions of the Protestants in France; Plaintes des Protestants cruellement opprimez dans le royaume de France. English Claude, Jean, 1619-1687. 1686 (1686) Wing C4589; ESTC R18292 46,534 60

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