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Modern & Contemporary France

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The internationally esteemed peer-reviewed journal offering a scholarly view of all aspects of France from 1789 to the present.

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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Applications are invited for membership of the Editorial Board of @francemodern.bsky.social. We encourage applications from specialists in any of the areas covered by the journal including politics, contemporary society, and popular culture. The initial term of appointment is two years.
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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As part of today's Francophone Friday, we would like to highlight some of the articles of the new issue of @francemodern.bsky.social which have caught our eye 👀1/7
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Our 34.3 August issue is now available online ! @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...
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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The first review of my book — Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film — has been published in @francemodern.bsky.social ! Thanks to Tyler Williams, whose own work on Malabou I admire greatly, for this review, which I was honoured to read! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RQ2NB...
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Catherine Malabou and contemporary French literature and film: witnessing plasticity
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our 34.2 Spring issue is now available online ! @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c...
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Airelle @airelleamedro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
You can now read my interview with Constance Debré in the special issue I guest edited for @francemodern.bsky.social! A great read to understand her literary trajectory from Play boy to Protocoles
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Amy Bergman @amy-bergman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
and no pic (I was busy chairing) but to end the day, we were treated to a really excellent development panel on publishing, thanks to @oliverjdavis.bsky.social and @benbgdalton.bsky.social of @francemodern.bsky.social!
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
« Après, il y a des caricatures parce qu’on pense que tout d’un coup, je suis homosexuelle et je deviens de gauche. » Constance Debré tells @airelleamedro.bsky.social Amédro in a refreshing interview. Read it in our special issue on her work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Je ne crois pas au monde victime-coupable’: an interview with Constance Debré
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2026)
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
« Après, il y a des caricatures parce qu’on pense que tout d’un coup, je suis homosexuelle et je deviens de gauche. » confie Constance Debré dans un entretien rafraichissant accordé à @airelleamedro.bsky.social. A lire dans notre numéro spécial sur son oeuvre : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Je ne crois pas au monde victime-coupable’: an interview with Constance Debré
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2026)
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Amy Bergman @amy-bergman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
our @asmcf.bsky.social and SSFH PG study day is underway! currently listening to a fantastic keynote from @rcoombes.bsky.social
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
listening to a great keynote paper on harmony in late 19th c. French visual culture by @rcoombes.bsky.social at @asmcf.bsky.social and SSFH study day - lots of esotericism and occulture in the mix! @francemodern.bsky.social
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Research Master’s scholarship in French available at UCC for 2026-7, covering fees and a contribution to maintenance. Please get in touch with any queries. @francemodern.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New podcast: @emile-chabal.bsky.social tells @jonathanervine.bsky.social about what may be in store for French politics in 2026 and beyond: they discuss the Macron presidency, the far right, and the countdown to the 2027 Presidential Elections. @asmcf.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2dqD...
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What’s next for French politics in 2026?
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Chandler D. Rogers, Merleau-Ponty and the Human-Animal Relation: From Eros to Environmental Responsibility - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-merleau...
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Merleau-Ponty and the Human–Animal Relation
Merleau-Ponty and the Human–Animal Relation
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Warwick_SMLC @warwick-smlc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great to see this magnificent special issue published on criminal barrister turned writer Constance Debré, one of the most incisive and uncompromising new queer voices in French contemporary literature. Congratulations to guest-editor @airelleamedro.bsky.social and to all of the authors featured!
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our 34.1 special issue on Constance Debré, guest edited by @airelleamedro.bsky.social is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social
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Constance Debré. Volume 34, Issue 1 of Modern & Contemporary France
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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Ten more days to apply for our Postgraduate Study Day with the Society for the Study of French History on "Resonances and Dissonances", which will take place on 10/04 at the @ilcs.bsky.social. More details here: www.asmcf.org/events/postg...
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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Instead of our traditional Members' Research Monday, we are delighted to share the CFP for our annual conference "Crisis or Catastrophe?", which will take place at the @ilcs.bsky.social on 2-3 September.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, @uchicagopress.bsky.social, November 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Complete Notebooks
The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.   Throughout his career, French writer and ...
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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/
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Conference2 – SSFH
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thank you for publishing with us.
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is an amazing opportunity for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher. Here @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social we’re keen to support at least one applicant. It’s a 4-year award incorporating a PhD studentship and experience at co-supervision. @francemodern.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social
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Women in French Australia @wifaustralia.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🎃 Halloween Special Alert! In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror. Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation! 🔗 womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
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Positionalities Podcast
Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Listen to our new podcast: @benbgdalton.bsky.social and @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social discuss our special issue on the BUMIDOM with @awimbush.bsky.social and Jennifer Boum Make. @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social mcfrance.podbean.com
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Modern & Contemporary France podcasts | MCF
This series of podcasts accompanies special issues of our journal.
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Côme Simien @comesimien.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Ce 2 octobre sortent les 2 premiers volumes de la collection "Cette année-là à Paris". L'un porte sur le + grave accident industriel de l'histoire de France (1794). L'autre sur le retour des cendres de Napoléon (1840). Ils sont brefs, accessibles, originaux, stimulants. Très heureux de ce lancement!
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📚 Unlock a century of scholarship Libraries subscribing to LUP Open Languages receive exclusive access to journal archives dating back as far as 1923 — while supporting Open Access to today’s research. Find out more at: bit.ly/LUPOpenLanguages #OpenAccess #S2O #SubscribetoOpen @aupresses.bsky.social
Promotional banner for Liverpool University Press. On the left, white text on a dark green background reads: “LUP Open Languages – Subscribe to Open – Archival Access from 1923” with the open access logo. The Liverpool University Press logo is above. On the right, covers of several journals are displayed, including European Journal of Language Policy, French Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and Contemporary French Civilization.
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field. Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our 33.3 special issue on "The BUMIDOM and its Legacy" guest edited by @awimbush.bsky.social and Malika Danican is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Dr Antonia Wimbush @awimbush.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Pleased to see the introduction to our special issue of @francemodern.bsky.social 'The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach', written with Malika Danican! Can't wait to see the rest of the issue & congratulations to all contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire
This introduction to the special issue of ‘The BUMIDOM and its Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire’ provides historical context to the ...
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Sarah Waters @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are recruiting a French post-doctoral researcher to our Wellcome Trust project: Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctorat - analyse internationale des suicides en lien avec le travail d’une perspective de justice sociale H/F
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
📢 New special issue of Contemporary French Civilization: Discourse & Society in the Global French-Speaking World. Explore research on language, identity & power across francophone contexts. Online at: bit.ly/Discourse-and-Society @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #DiscourseAnalysis #FrenchStudies
Graphic for a new journal issue: Background is a dark and bright blue image of marbleised paint. A journal cover for 'Contemporary French Civilization' sits to the right, the journal's title is a fresh white modern font and the cover is a navy blue. White text to the left reads 'Special Issue, Discourse and Society in the Global French-Speaking World'. The Liverpool University Press logo sits in the bottom left, it features a minimalist swoosh which represents the Liver Bird, text underneath reads 'Liverpool University Press Founded 1899', the logo is white.
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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
great to see this terrific article on the French care economy by @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social out online with @francemodern.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The French care economy: between gendered inequality and feminist idealism
The care economy in France is a site of both profound gendered inequalities and of renewed feminist idealism for an alternative social model and feminist ethic. This paper focuses on the realities ...
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Ry Montgomery @rymontgomery.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Grateful to share that this issue includes my article on the films of Lionel Soukaz, written before his passing earlier this year. There is still so much more to be said about his radical and inspiring vision for cinema, community and resistance - a vision that we all need, now more than ever.
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Our May issue with a special section on 'Reading Le Manifeste conspirationniste (Seuil, 2022)' is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New podcast! Presenters @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social and @benbgdalton.bsky.social are joined by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, guest-editor of our recent special issue on abortion and by discussant @dnduffy.bsky.social, author of Abortion Trail Activism www.podbean.com/eas/pb-23hin...
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Abortion
In this episode, presenters Dr Maria Tomlinson and Dr Benjamin Dalton are joined by Dr Dominique Carlini Versini, the guest-editor of issue 33,1 (2025), a special issue on abortion in literature and v...
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It was great to have you with us @jonathanervine.bsky.social and thank you for your continuous support of the journal.
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Pour commencer le weekend, nous vous invitons à lire l'article de Daddy Dibinga Kalamba qui propose une perspective décoloniale de la mise en espace dans les séries sénégalaises. @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma
Depuis plus d’une dizaine d’années, des soap opera sénégalais émergent. Ces séries, produites par les Sénégalais, pour des Sénégalais en premier lieu, parlent de leur quotidien. Karma, la série pro...
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Karine Varley @karinevarley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Delighted to learn that my book, Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, is now available in paperback. @strathhumanities.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 26/03/2025
La musique est omniprésente dans l'univers de Virginie Despentes. Dans l'émission "Décibels" en 2004, elle explique comment le punk a décomplexé son écriture. Sans cette culture, elle n'aurait jamais osé écrire. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/1uG
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We are pleased to announce that the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize has been awarded to Elisa Camiscioli for Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Congratulations! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A fab call from French and Canadian colleagues on translation and research-creation: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
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Du franchissement à l’affranchissement : reconsidérer la traduction au prisme de la recherche-création (Vita Traductiva)
APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Du franchissement à l’affranchissement : reconsidérer la traduction au prisme de la recherche-création Traditionnellement considérée comme une opération complexe de transfert lin...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Coming soon in our Francophone Postcolonial Studies series!
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Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique EHNE @ehne.fr · 08/03/2025
📅 Le 8 mars est la journée internationale des droits des femmes. Pourquoi cette date ? Depuis quand est-elle reconnue ? 👩‍🏫 Retrouvez les explications de Kerstin Wolff sur ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
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Journée internationale des femmes du 8 mars (La)
La journée internationale des femmes du 8 mars
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
En cette journée internationale pour les droits des femmes, nous vous invitons à vous pencher sur les représentations artistiques et littéraires de cette réalité centrale des combats féministes avec notre dernier numéro spécial sur l'avortement. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...
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L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels. Volume 33, Issue 1 of Modern & Contemporary France
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our special February issue L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels, guest-edited by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Sorbonne Digital Encyclopedia of History - EHNE @historysorbonne.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“💬 She was one of those French mathematicians, physicists and philosophers who revolutionized science” For this #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsinScience, see the story of 18th century woman of science and philosopher Emilie du Châtelet, ✍️by Andrea Reichenberger ( @tum.de ) 👉 ehne.fr/en/encyclope...
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Between science & philosophy: Émilie du Châtelet, a key figure of the European Enlightenment
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Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Consider applying for one of our open positions:
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Submit your proposal to Contemporary French Civilization by March 02nd for a special issue on norms, practices & representations of LGBTIQ+ children and adolescents in Francophone worlds, 20th & 21st Centuries 👉 bit.ly/CFC-Submissions @sfps.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS. LGBTIQ+ Children and Adolescents in Francophone Worlds, 20th & 21st Centuries: Norms, Practices & Representations. Journal cover for Contemporary French Civilization sits to the right. The background image is a dark inky marbleised design. Liverpool University Press logo in all white sits in the lower left corner.
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