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First edition in book form of Heine’s first work of political journalism, discussing cultural and political developments in France in the wake of the July Revolution.

The articles, which had first appeared in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, are here introduced by a new – wide-ranging and rather polemic – preface.

Goedeke VIII, 557, 41; Wilpert/Gühring 8.

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