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Quatrième division militaire. Liberté. Égalité. Jugement du
Conseil de guerre de la quatrième division militaire, séant à Nancy qui acquitte honorablement Augustin Tuncq, général de division, de toutes les inculpations [d'abus d'autorité, d'actes violents et arbitraires dans les pays conquis et
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