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L'Empereur

A pharaoh leans against a cubic stone, one leg crossed over the other, holding a sceptre topped with an orb. Jupiter stands in the margin, and the keywords pair La Forme with L'Autorite. The crossed legs, read since Levi as a figure of the number 4, survive the Egyptian costume change intact.

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