Secret de Polichinelle.

 

Secret de Polichinelle.
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Volume I., 7. — "Le Secret de Polichinelle".
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Translation: Punch's secret.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 206.

 

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