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...that art dealer Jacques Seligmann & Company sold Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (pictured) to the Museum of Modern Art for $24,000 in 1937?
...that the pancakes called galettes (pictured) originated in Upper Brittany and crêpes in Lower Brittany?
...that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter?

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