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<wicri:regionArea>The author is Research Professor at York University Ontario. Improving criticism of this article in draft was kindly offered by colleagues there, and also in Oxford at the seminars of P. G. M. Dickson, J. H. Elliott, R. J. W. Evans, Michael Hurst and Paul Langford. N. M. Sutherland, T. J. A. Le Goff, J. Warwick and the anonymous readers for French History made invaluable suggestions. For a visiting fellowship I am grateful to All Souls College, Oxford</wicri:regionArea>
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