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Durival, N.L. 1778. Description de Lorraine et du Barrois. Vol. 1. Nancy, Veuve Leclerc.

Description de Lorraine et du Barrois. Vol. 1

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Location Captive Subject Captive before 1800 Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

TRAVELS OF CLARE IN 1748 FRANCE

p. 197 For the year 1748
Court of Stanislas ? He was in Chateau de Lunéville
On vit dans ce tems en Lorraine un Rhinocéros femelle de dix mois. Son portrait de grandeur naturelle fut exposé aux galeries du louvre à Paris.
[Translate: At this time, a ten-month-old female rhinoceros was seen in Lorraine. Her life-size portrait was exhibited in the galleries of the Louvre in Paris.]

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