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 * ...that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne (detail of illustration pictured) told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
 * ...that Lycée Pierre-Corneille was founded in 1593 to educate children "in accordance with the purest doctrinal principles of Roman Catholicism"?
 * ...that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, but only ever contained two monumental tombs?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2012/July, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2011/February, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2009/January, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.