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• ...that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne (detail of illustration pictured) told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
• ...that Lycée Pierre-Corneille was founded in 1593 to educate children "in accordance with the purest doctrinal principles of Roman Catholicism"?
• ...that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, but only ever contained two monumental tombs?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/July#29 July 2012, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/February#1 February 2011, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/January#2 January 2009, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.