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Claude Charles Fauriel
1844Jul, 15

Claude Charles Fauriel

Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
Claude Charles Fauriel (21 October 1772 – 15 July 1844) was a French historian, philologist and critic.

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