ELEMENTARY FRENCH I
The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Alexandra Borer
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Nadrah S Mohammed
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Alexandra Borer
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Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
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Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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ELEMENTARY FRENCH II
The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TRF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Eric T Matheis
CULPA: 4
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
This course will further your awareness and understanding of the French language, culture and literature, provide a comprehensive review of fundamental grammar points while introducing more advanced ones, as well as improve your mastery of oral, reading, and writing skills. By the end of the course, you will be able to read short to medium-length literary and non-literary texts, and analyze and comment on varied documents and topics, both orally and in writing.
- MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eponine Senay
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Instructor:
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
CULPA: 12
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Rj McIntyre
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Brooke N Habit
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Carlos Malache Silva
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Hayet Sellami
CULPA: 3
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INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II
Prerequisites: FREN UN2121 Intermediate Conversation is a suggested, not required, corequisite Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mohamed Yacine Chitour
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Nicolas E Mouzet
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Laurence Marie
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Hayet Sellami
CULPA: 3
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Instructor:
Heidi Holst-Knudsen
CULPA: 20
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- 4 points
RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION
The course focuses on reading comprehension and translation into English and includes a grammar and vocabulary overview. It also addresses the differences between English and French syntax and raises questions of idiomatic versus literal translations.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH I
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, plays, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points. The themes and topics covered will be chosen according to students’ interests.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Hayet Sellami
CULPA: 3
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INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH II
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- 2 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
FRENCH THRU CURRENT EVENTS
The course will offer students an understanding of fundamental underlying concepts that structure French society and that are necessary to grasp if one wants to follow current events in France. This course could be of interest not only to CC students but also to students enrolled at SIPA or Teacher’s College.
Moreover, this course would allow for a comparative approach to how same events are covered in US, or other foreign media, and in France.
Given that this course will deal with current events, the readings will depend entirely on how the news unfolds. Students will be given an introduction to the various media outlets available to them: the press, television and online sources. As the course unfolds, I will adapt the choice of sources that best follow events as they happen. 2022 for example, will be the year France assumes the presidency of the European Union. It will also be the year of the presidential elections. For such events, I will propose specific institutional sources. On the other hand, events that could not be anticipated will require some form of guidance in terms of sources.
In spite of the obvious unpredictability of the specific content of this course, certain key concepts necessary to understand current events in France will be presented. These may vary slightly from one semester to another, but would include, without being limited to: the structure of government and public institutions, political parties, unions and “associations”, social benefits and “the welfare state”, public vs. private sector, “Paris is France”, universalism, secularism and “
laïcité
”, cultural exceptionalism, the figure of the intellectual, national identity, immigration, geography of France and demographics, relation to Europe, geopolitics, globalization and sovereignty. Of course, the choice of themes and concepts in a given semester would be influenced by dominant topics in the French news.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel Skippon
CULPA: 13
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French Through The Visual Arts
The course is an introduction to visual arts and art professions in the context of French and francophone arts and cultural institutions. Students will experience arts through presentations, workshops, discussions with art professionals, guest visits, and visits to art museums and galleries. Students who take the class can apply for unpaid internships in an art institution in the spring following the class. In these internships, students will use some of the French language skills they have acquired in the class.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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Read, Think, Write in French
THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP
UN3405 enables students to hone and perfect their reading and writing skills while improving their ability to express and organize thoughts in French. In this engaging advanced language class, students are exposed to major texts in fields as diverse as journalism, sociology, anthropology, politics, literature, philosophy and history. Stimulating class discussions, targeted reviews of key grammatical points in context, and an array of diverse writing exercises all contribute to strengthen students’ mastery of the French language. This course also works as a bridge class between Intermediate French II and courses that focus on French and Francophone cultures, history and literature (such as 3409 and 3410). Students who take this class will be fully prepared to take advanced content classes or spend a semester in a Francophone country. This class is required for the French major and minor.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra Borer
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Instructor:
Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE HISTORY
INTRO FREN FRANCOPHONE HI
This class provides an introduction to the history of France and of the francophone world since the Middle Ages. It initiates students to the major events and themes that have shaped politics, society, and culture in France and its former colonies, paying special attention to questions of identity and diversity in a national and imperial context. Modules include a combination of lecture and seminar-style discussion of documents (in French).
This course is part of a two-course sequence and is a core requirement the French and Francophone Studies major.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Dodman
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Intro French & Francophone Literature
Intro French Francophone
This class offers a survey of major works of French and francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis will be placed on formal and stylistic elements of the works read and on developing the critical skills necessary for literary analysis. Works will be placed in their historical context.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anna P Langewiesche
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Writing the Expatriation: American Write
This seminar offers a dive into the richness of the Parisian cultural landscape in the 1920s, particularly through the lens of the American expatriate writers who lived there and produced some of their most important works at that time.
In this seminar, we will ask: What made Paris such a fertile ground for literary production at the time? Why is it that American literature took such a decisive turn abroad and not at home? Did French artists and writers have an influence—both in terms of contents and style—on American writers of the Lost Generation, for instance? To what extent did the exile of American expatriates help them find their own voices and outline the literature of their own country more accurately? What gender-centered questions do these works raise—if one thinks, for instance, of the famous
flapper
popularized by Fitzgerald and embodied by characters such Lady Brett Ashley in Hemingway’s first novel? Finally, what role did publishing houses, editors, and meeting places like G. Stein’s apartment play then?
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Antoine Guibal
Info - 3 points
Asylum/ Asile: Theory and Practice of As
Asylum/Asile
is an experiential learning class conducted in collaboration with Project Rousseau, a holistic non-profit organization that helps young people in communities with the greatest need.
Since migrant youth and families began arriving in New York by bus from the southern border, Project Rousseau has been on the frontlines serving them. A large proportion of these migrants are Francophone asylum seekers who need support with their application. This class will teach the theory and practice of asylum law, the specific sociohistorical, cultural, and political contexts that motivates Francophone asylum seekers, especially in the case of Mauritania and Guinea, and the ways in which translation is critical to this process. The class will culminate in students assisting Project Rousseau’s Francophone clients with their asylum applications.
The class is offered in the Fall. Interested students will be able to apply for internships with Project Rousseau in the Spring Semester.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emmanuelle Saada
CULPA: 13
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THEORY OF LITERATURE I
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aubrey A Gabel
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
How to Love: Medieval French and Arabic
How did people conceive of and talk about love on either side of the Pyrenees? This course will explore the many faces of desire in medieval French, Occitan, Arabic, Hebrew and Romance (proto-Spanish) literature to ask a broader question: what would be our understanding of lyric poetry, often taken to originate with the troubadours, if we incorporated the poems and songs of Al-Andalus? After anchoring ourselves in history, we will survey the major events and trends that attended the emergence of new poetic and musical forms both in Andalusia and in France between the 8th and the 14th centuries. We will study how these works were composed, read, performed, and transmitted.
Weekly readings will combine scholarship with primary texts exploring the many facets of erotic experience: from sexual contact to love from afar, love as madness, love mediated by birds, rejection of marriage, gender fluidity and queerness. We will also think about the literary forms in which these themes are expressed, including dawn songs, bilingual love poems, treatises on achieving female orgasm, conduct manuals, and hybrid texts combining prose and verse.
Translations will be provided for most material, but reading knowledge of modern French is required.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 3 points
PRACTICUM IN FR LANG PEDAGOGY
Designed for new Teaching Fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
CULPA: 12
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- 3 points
French Film Aesthetics
The seminar prioritizes a particular branch of French-language film theory and criticism that broadly deals with aesthetics, at the expense of reception and apparatus theories. We follow its history from the silent film-era writings of Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein to the intersection of film aesthetics and French theory in the work of Barthes, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière, to the most recent inquiries into such notions as montage, découpage, and mise en scène (Aumont, Barnard, Kessler). Weekly films will accompany the readings in order to put pressure on theory, but also to help dissipate its excessive maleness. Because French film aesthetics has been influential around the world and—vice versa—because world cinema has been crucial for the development of French film aesthetics, we will also see American, Italian, Soviet, Japanese, Iranian, Malian, and Taiwanese films, in addition to French films.
All films will be presented with English subtitles. There are no prerequisites for the course, but students wanting to enroll must be committed to attending the Tuesday night 6–9pm screenings, in addition to the 12:10–2pm seminars on Wednesdays.
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tadas Bugnevicius
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Alice Diop: French Cinema and Postcoloni
This seminar is the first comprehensive course on Alice Diop's cinema, from her confidential beginnings in 2005 (
Clichy pour l’exempl
e) to her international success in 2022 (
Saint Omer
). An analysis of the
Double Vague,
a term coined by French-Burkinabe film critic Claire Diao, will inform our detailed review of six of Diop’s films. The
Double Vague
refers to a generation of French filmmakers from postcolonial origins, working from the
banlieues
. Since the 2000s, these filmmakers have breathed new life into national cinema and highlighted alternative narratives of French society.
Alice Diop is a young Black woman of Muslim culture, born in the
banlieues
from an immigrant family of modest means. Each of these six identities alone make her an outsider in a traditionally Parisian, white, bourgeois and heavily male French cinema environment. Taken together, these characteristics form the main thread of this seminar: the aesthetics, intersectional identities and universalist aspirations in Alice Diop’s that interrogate contemporary France.
This class will present foundational themes of Diop's work, themes that are intimately weaved throughout the life of the filmmaker. Through these themes, we will analyze the theories of consciousness that are transforming French society at the beginning of the 21st century. Through Alice Diop's cinema and our guest speaker's works, this seminar will review the mutations of universalism
à la française
, from Ronsard and Montaigne's pre-Enlightenment notions of universalism as humanism to the current debates in the articulation of race, class, gender and citizenship.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mame-Fatou Niang
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Classical French Moralists
This course will be dedicated to the study of three authors whom Nietzsche called masters of
Seelenprüfung
(examination of the soul) and whose heritage he explicitly embraced both stylistically and philosophically: Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère. In French literary history these writers are traditionally known as “moralists of the seventeenth century” or “classical French moralists.” The term moralist was not used in the seventeenth century and did not appear until the nineteenth century, when these three writers were grouped in anthologies. Yet their affinities were clear even at the time of the production of these works: when La Bruyère published his
Caractères
(1696) he explicitly referenced La Rochefoucauld’s
Maximes
(1678) and Pascal’s
Pensées
(1670) to outline the similarities and differences between his work and theirs. These three prose writers were called
moralistes
because of their focus on
moeurs
(human behavior). Their perspective is not at all moralizing in the trivial sense of the term (denouncing behavior that falls short of a stated norm). The
moralistes
are relentless analysts of the complexities and inconsistencies of human behavior and they present their observations in the form of pithy statements with varying degrees of generalization. In La Rochefoucauld, the embrace of the short form is explicit and systematic. In Pascal, it is due in part to the unfinished and fragmentary nature of the work. In La Bruyère, the use of the short form coexists with its opposite. Part of the attraction of these writers for modern readers is their mistrust of appearances and their exacting search for hidden motives, making them forerunners of the “hermeneutics of suspicion”.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre Force
CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
IMAGES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
IMAGES OF FR. REVOLUTION
Along with the American Revolution which immediately preceded it, the French Revolution was the most important political event in modern history. The bloody end of the 18th century ushered in modernity, retrospectively marking a definitive break between “early modern” and “modern” eras. The French Revolution has been endlessly and variously mythologized and analyzed, as well as depicted in polemical writings, novels, poetry, theater, film, and opera. This course is designed as an overview of responses to the ten-year event, concentrating on popular depictions in Francophone and Anglophone works. We will start with contemporary responses and move on through 19th- and 20th-century literary representations of the Revolution, including plays and films, both adaptations of literary responses and original treatments. Readings will include works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burke, Wollestonecraft, Sade, and Dickens, along with more recent responses.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Weber
CULPA: 8
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INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY AND LITERATURE
INTRO TO HISTORY AND LIT
An exploration of the interconnections and intersections between history and literature, both as categories of cultural production and as scholarly disciplines. In the past thirty years the boundaries between history and literature have become usefully blurred, as literary scholars pursued the historical aspects of their texts and historians recognized the literary aspects of their narratives. The result is a propitious intellectual moment, which enables scholars to address new methodological horizons that combine close reading of texts with expansive attention to historical context.
The course treats the subject in terms of both theory and practice. Theoretical readings address the relations between history and literature, with a focus on texts relevant to scholars working in the field today. Exemplary recent works of English-language scholarship highlight the kind of creative blending of literary and historical approaches that the students might pursue in their M.A. essays.
- T 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elisabeth A Ladenson
CULPA: 13 Info - 3 points
French Realism in Historical Context
French Realism in Context
This course is designed as an introduction to the 19th-century French “realist” novel, with particular attention to its innovative use of the recent past as historical context. We will begin by studying the complicated arc of French political and cultural history in the period between the Revolution and the end of the century, so as to better to appreciate the way historical events form the backdrop to the characters’ fictional adventures in three major works of 19th-century French realism. Balzac’s
Lost Illusions
(1837-43), Flaubert’s
Sentimental Education
(1869) and Zola’s
Ladies’ Paradise
, span the century as they take place in the decades preceding their respective publications: the political, artistic and cultural movements of the post-Revolutionary period (Balzac), the years leading up to the Revolution of 1848 (Flaubert), and the cultural upheavals of the Second Empire and Belle Époque (Zola). We will watch Xavier Giannoli’s 2021 blockbuster film version of
Lost Illusions
, and we will also read Eugen Weber’s
France Fin de Siècle
to guide our understanding of the late 19th-century cultural innovations on display in Zola’s novel about the first department stores. Since most of the three novels are situated in Paris, we will take advantage of being on-site for field trips to visit some of the locales depicted in the works and reflect on how the contemporary city reflects the continuation of trends from the 19th century.
- R 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- 3 points
French Lecture Series
Course Description
Students curate, organize and attend a series of lectures open to all members of the French department, including graduate students, faculty and undergraduate majors/concentrators. Working with a faculty member, they invite two speakers each semester, collaborate on the scheduling and organization of talks, introduce guests and lead the discussion.
The lecture series exposes graduate students to new work in the field, including new methodologies and emerging areas of research and teaching. By giving students the opportunity to select speakers, it actively engages them in the cultural and intellectual life of the department. Students benefit from observing the different possible formats and styles of academic talks. By organizing and scheduling events, preparing speaker introductions and moderating questions and discussion, they also develop important professional skills.
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Instructor:
Emmanuelle Saada
CULPA: 13
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