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Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville|Louis-Henri Brevière

"When we do not want to see the dawn rise, we do not care about a neighbor like that!" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

ca. 1842
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26.2 × 18.4 cm (10.3 × 7.2 in)

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