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Andrew Best Leloir|Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville

"To pay the landlord, a very harsh man, whose name was M. Vautour" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

ca. 1837–47
Wood engraving
26.3 × 18.2 cm (10.4 × 7.2 in)

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