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n. - French lexicographer (1801-1881).

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  • Meanwhile I repeat to myself what Littre said to me one day:
  • Marechal, who had listened silently until then, interrupted the conversation, to defend the monkeys in the name of Littre.
  • Littre has even unearthed the fact that during the 14th century a street in Paris near the medical schools, bore the name of the Rue Gilbert l'Anglois.
  • They also note that references to this four generational pattern can be found in Exodus and The Illiad as well as in the works of Huntington (1981), Marias (1967, 1968),...
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