Esquisse pour le salon des Lettres de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Histoire de l'écriture, les temps anciens, Ancient Greece: a woman unrolls a manuscript; in the background, by the sea, Cadmus explains Phoenician characters to the Greeks.

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