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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)

Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot
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Founded before Christ and noted for its pretty women, Aries was until 1997 the home of Madame Jeanne Calment. Her story is a testament to the bracing air of Provence and a warning to all property speculators. She was born in 1875, and had met Van Gogh when she was a girl. At the age of 90, she decided to sell her apartment en viager to a local lawy
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
Bread continued to be in short supply, a sought-after luxury.
Nechama Tec • Defiance

Madame Mermoz avait eu une jeunesse mélancolique, étouffée. La gaieté qui est son élément naturel – des maladies successives, des complications familiales la lui avaient interdite. Son mariage, conclu hâtivement, avait été malheureux. Ayant quitté Paris, elle vivait à Aubenton, dans l'hôtel du Lion d'Or, dont son mari était propriétaire. Elle n'ava
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