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In 2006, on the 400th anniversary of the first performance of
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says it was published in six editions from 1609 to 1618.) He added material on
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in defence of peace. When the treaty was concluded, he composed a poem "Harangue d’action de grâces", wrote a commemorative inscription, and published
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