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La Force

A woman in a flowing dress, her hat brim curved in the same double loop as the Bateleur's, calmly holds open the jaws of a red lion. No visible strain; the point, for Wirth as for the Marseille makers before him, is that the mastery is effortless. She keeps her Marseille number, eleven.

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