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- ↑ Exposition de 1806: Rapport du jury sur les produits de l'industrie française, présenté a S.E.M. de Champagny, Ministre de L'intérieur; précédé du procès-verbal des opérations du jury (in French). De l'Imprimerie impériale. 1806.
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