L'envers d'un homme de bien : roman by Max Daireaux
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| Author | Daireaux, Max, 1883-1954 |
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| LoC No. | 25010520 |
| Title | L'envers d'un homme de bien : roman |
| Original Publication | Paris: Albin Michel, 1925. |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77448 |
| Release Date | Dec 12, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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