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Delilah preparing to cut Samson's hair with scissors in her right hand, below her ches

Delilah preparing to cut Samson's hair with scissors in her right hand, below her chest are the head and shoulders of the sleeping Samson, ca. 1629

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Anne of Austria with the Young Louis XIV and Monsieur before the Virgin and Child

Anne of Austria with the Young Louis XIV and Monsieur before the Virgin and Child (Anne d'Autriche deposant le regence du royaume de France entre les mains de la Vierge Marie)

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Title Page: Le Code Louis XIV, 1667. Creator: Claude Mellan

Title Page: Le Code Louis XIV, 1667. The Code Noir defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire, restricted the activities of free Negroes, forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism, and ordered all Jews out of France's colonies

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