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Contributors to Humanities Journals in France and England Took Note of Emperor Norton in 1937

In 1937, French and English contributors to two scholarly journals — published in Paris and London, respectively — tuned in to Emperor Norton, most of them for the first time apparently.

It’s hard to know what to think of the “evidence” they included — and how they treated it.

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