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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2897963, member: 88829&quot;]...or better yet, get Victor to translate Bastien into English so you can move beyond the dated but otherwise best scholarship on the subject in your native tongue.</p><p><br /></p><p>To Victor - I am aware that Pierre Bastien has done important work, and I wish I could access it.&nbsp; But years ago I put out some hefty chunks of money for books by Babelon, Mionette, de Morgan, and a couple of others in the original French, and have utterly failed in my efforts to make good use of them because I don&#039;t read French.&nbsp; It was not among the nine languages I did study, and I didn&#039;t have time for it.&nbsp; Now, at this stage I will enjoy the hobby to the limits of my English, and save my thanks for those who are willing to help me do so.&nbsp; And I will not know why Bastien interprets the data differently than Bruun (who was Finnish but wrote in English).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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