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"title": "The Year in Review for 1983",
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"did_you_know": "The duke of Bourbon\u2019s menagerie was recorded in the dedication to Jean-Antoine Fraisse\u2019s Livre de Desseins Chinois (Book of Chinese Drawings), a book that documented the decoration on the duke\u2019s collection of Asian porcelain, lacquer, and textiles.",
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"page_number": "p. 344, fig. 50",
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"citation": "Le Duc, Genevie\u0300ve. Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle: he\u0301ritages des manufactures de Rouen, Saint-Cloud et Paris et influences sur les autres manufactures de XVIIIe sie\u0300cle. Paris: Hazan, 1996.",
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