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Michael S. Smith, Free Trade versus Protection in the Early Third Republic: Economic Interests, Tariff Policy, and the Making of the Republican Synthesis, French Historical Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 293-314
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