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Fantômes romands, the revenant of the rue d'or

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  • 01 November 2016
  • Kathrin Utz Tremp
    • Lettres, UNIL
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People have always believed in ghosts. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church recovered the idea to justify the existence of purgatory.

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