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Be My True Love: A Valentine Created from A French Alphabet Book

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Andrea Immel

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All letters in the message

were taken from

Alphabet universel anglais et francais

Paris? between 1830 and 1839?

Euro 18 unprocessed 7160292

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