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Esquisse d'un Tableau des Apports de la France a la Civilisation. By LOUIS-PHILIPPE MAY. Paris: Albin Michel. 1951. 751pp. H7ofr. A book bearing such a title as this could hardly fail to be a long one, and in this respect the author rises nobly to the occasion. His enterprise, while it resembles that of Alfred Rambaud in taking the whole history of French