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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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