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24 of Poitiers, to whom is due the edict providing that a copy on vellum, handsomely bound, of every book printed in France should be deposited in the library of the King. Her books were stamped with mythological emblems and crescents, sometimes untied in a monogram with the King’s initial and the royal coat-of-arms.