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  • It will be conceived that this kind of initiation to death may alarm the most hardened criminals, and inspire with salutary terror the crowd which surrounds the "_chapelle mortuaire_."

    Mysteries of Paris, V3 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • “The modern style is the last phase of the Judaic school ....” etc.] [Footnote 148: In the Cours de Composition musicale M. d'Indy speaks of “the admirable initial T in the Rouleau mortuaire of Saint-Vital (twelfth century), which represents Satan vomiting two Jews

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • "The modern style is the last phase of the Judaic school ...." etc.] [Footnote 148: In the _Cours de Composition musicale_ M. d'Indy speaks of "the admirable initial T in the _Rouleau mortuaire_ of Saint-Vital

    Musicians of To-Day Romain Rolland 1905

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