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- ↑ Revue de la Normandie - Volume 10 - Page 402 Gustave Gouellain, Jean Benoît Désiré Cochet - 1870 "voulons parler de Guillaume Chastillon de la Tour, poète normand qui, non-seulement composait des chansons, mais encore en faisait la musique. Il habitait, en 1590, la ville de Caen. Voulant publier ses œuvres, il profita du moment où le ...
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