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| Title | Bluebeard: An Account of Comorre the Cursed and Gilles de Rais, with Summaries of Various Tales and Traditions |
| Author | Ernest Alfred Vizetelly |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 22, 2006 |
| Length | 418 pages |
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