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 * ...that the French occupation of Tunisia in 1881 (troops pictured) received the approval of both Great Britain and Germany, but that Italy protested in vain?
 * ...that the image of Benjamin Franklin familiar on the U.S. hundred dollar bill was painted by the French painter Joseph Duplessis?
 * ...that Saint Bernadette of Lourdes entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers named for the seventh-century Saint Gildard, not the sixth-century Saint Gildard?

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