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  • Richelieu and still more entirely by Mazarin, who acknowledged the loyalty of Huguenots in the Fronde, became an exotic, an anachronism,

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • On the other hand, the present German régime, which is an anachronism,

    Selected Essays Karl Marx 1850

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