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English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.

Presentation of a cross to the city of Arras by François Xavier Duplessis in March 1738. Engraving by N.J.B. de Poilly, ca. 1740.

Inventaire des archives hospitalières d'Arras antérieures à l'an V / par Georges Besnier [and others].

Dictionnaire des correspondants de l'Académie d'Arras au temps de Robespierre / [Léon Noël Berthe].

Joseph Le Bon : ou, Arras sous la Terreur : essai sur la psychose révolutionnaire / Yves Dhotel ; préface du Laignel-Lavastine.

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Inventaire des archives hospitalières d'Arras antérieures à l'an V / par Georges Besnier [and others].

Dictionnaire des correspondants de l'Académie d'Arras au temps de Robespierre / [Léon Noël Berthe].

Joseph Le Bon : ou, Arras sous la Terreur : essai sur la psychose révolutionnaire / Yves Dhotel ; préface du Laignel-Lavastine.

Presentation of a cross to the city of Arras by François Xavier Duplessis in March 1738. Engraving by N.J.B. de Poilly, ca. 1740.

English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.