Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.

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Art, French - 19th century

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Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.