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| Title | John De Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland: Or, Twenty Years of a Parliamentary Republic, Volume 2 John De Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland: Or, Twenty Years of a Parliamentary Republic, Germain Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis Volume 2 of John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis |
| Author | Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis |
| Translated by | S. E. Stephenson, A. Stephenson |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2006 |
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