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There can be no doubt that many errors and omissions have been committed and I shall be obliged to those visitors who, by pointing them out, will enable me to avoid them in a future edition; adding, if so they list, any suggestions they may deem calculated to render this little volume a still more useful and welcome companion to the galleries of the Louvre.
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