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- Description is exactly "<p>This notification prohibits fifty-five books and mandates the expurgation of six others. The prohibited titles range from No. 9, the obscene French novel<span> </span><em>Voyage dans le Boudoir de Paulina</em>, to No. 14, Edward Gibbon’s six-volume<span> </span><em>History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</em><span> </span>(London, 1776–1789). The latter work, widely considered one of the foundations of modern historical method, was banned on account of its negative characterization of the early Church.</p>"
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