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Les arènes24 titles published last year – 6 best-seller (› 20,000 copies)

Created in 1997, this independent publishing house issues 25 non-fiction books each year. There are papers on current events, psychology and history books, biographies, graphic novels and illustrated albums. We publish a little of everything, but selectively and never haphazardly. Each book is an adventure, and must have a purpose and a “raison d’être.”www.arenes.fr

L’iconocLaste7 titles published last year – 4 best-seller (› 20,000 copies)

Created in 1997, Arènes’ sister publishing house compagny only publishes a handful of titles each year. Sometimes they are literary treasures, which stay with us for a long time. Often, they are works that are monumental, esthetic, adventurous, sensitive, and intellectual.www.editions-iconoclaste.fr

revue 62 years – 5 issues – More than 40,000 copies per issue

Twice a year, this 350-pages magazine publishes photo-features from around the world. 25 to 35 pages are dedicated to each piece. 6Mois was created with the intention of being translated across the world. Its immediate success in France (the first issue sold 50,000 copies) should convince foreign editors to be a part of this adventure.www.6mois.fr

revue5 years – 22 issues – More than 50,000 copies per issue

Created in 2008, this quarterly review publishes unique reportages, consisting of long texts (20 pages), photo reports, or illustrated coverage. With each issue selling more than 50,000 copies, XXI has set a new standard in France for the quality of press.www.revue21.fr

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Reviews of Deux petits pas sur le sable mouillé :

“Exceptional insights into life.”eLLe

“A story carried by the incredibly tranquillity of spirit of a mother put to the test.” Le point

“An extraordinary autobiographical account.”Le Figaro

“A wonderful lesson from a little girl.” La croix

—anne-Dauphine Julliand has had four children. She lives in the Paris region and her work as a journalist has been temporarily interrupted to take care of her child-ren and respond to requests for conferences and signatures. Since the publication of her first book, she has given over 300 conferences and book signing events in France and abroad. The book has won many prizes in France and abroad, including the Prix Pèlerin du Témoignage [Pèlerin Prize for Autobiography / Memoir] and the Best French Story of 2011 in China.

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The 29th of February is a special day because it only comes around every four years. But for Anne-Dauphine Julliand it is the birthday of her daughter Thaïs, who died at the age of three and a half of an incurable genetic disease. On the 29th of February 2012 she would have been eight years old. Her book, entitled Une journée particu-lière [A Special Day], talks about this day. The family survived this terrible ordeal, and it even got bigger. The reader meets Azylis, Thaïs’ little sister, who suffers from the same disease. She underwent transplant surgery at birth and she will soon turn 6. But Azylis is not out of the woods yet. The most recent addition to the family, Ar-thur, is in perfect health. He didn’t know his big sister, but Gaspard his older brother will be the first to tell him Thaïs’ story. Here, we rediscover anne-Dauphine Jul-liand’s talent for relating the small things in life and conveying immense emotions. her message remains simple, true and strong : we all need to be loved and we all need to be happy despite our ordeals. Perfectly autonomous and designed to be read independently of her last book, this story could nonetheless enrich the reading of Deux petits pas sur le sable mouillé [Two Small Footsteps on Wet Sand].

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“‘Why don’t you go and play with your little friends ?’Stupid question, simple answer :When they’re let out into the schoolyard, the big kids pick on the medium-sized kids who pick on the little kids, who have no one to pick on. So they wait patiently until the following year to become medium-sized, then pick on the new lot of little ones. The big kids are the kings, but they don’t know who will be waiting for them next year. The following year, they’ll be little again. They may be kings, but all the same, they are not allowed to go into the neighbouring playground. It’s much too dangerous…”

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When hugo horiot was 8 years old, his mother, Fran-çoise Lefèvre, told his story in a book, Le Petit Prince can-nibale, which won the Goncourt des Lycéens [Goncourt high-school jury prize]. This was the story of a mother who refused to be considered responsible for her son’s autism and decided to educate him herself. Today, Hugo is thirty. He is an actor and director.

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Hugo is autistic, with Asperger’s syndrome. He delves into his memories as an autis-tic child, and talks about how he suffered from being different : his refusal to speak, his desire to be someone else, to the point of wanting to change his name. He does not hide his own cruelty, either. He evokes his fourth year in the manner of a four-year-old child, following the same procedure through to his adolescence. We feel as though we are seeing the world through his eyes, as though we were in his head. He could have remained bitter, but he found resilience through theatre. Hugo was gradually able to overcome rejection and pain.this exceptional account helps us to understand what goes on within the mind of an extremely intelligent autistic child, his obsessions, his anxieties, his way of seeing things, and his concessions with respect to other children, tea-chers and psychiatrists. With disarming sincerity and a sense of detachment that is often funny, he also reveals the darker aspects of his personality, his calculating spirit, the spying he indulges in, and his omnipotence. all of this is told with an unsettling accuracy, which could not leave any reader indifferent.

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Being a mother of twelve children, having experienced eleven pregnancies and as many miscarriages is also an adventure of the body. Then there’s the breast-fee-ding : between ten and twelve months for each newborn. Marielle speaks candidly about this carnal aspect of maternity. being a mother also means educating and providing guidance. Marielle tells us how she strives to be as present as possible for each one of her children. —At the end of the book, there are two ‘notebooks’ : Marielle’s recipes in under twenty minutes, for less than 10 euros. “What does it feel like to live in a huge family ?” from the children’s perspective (in words or drawings) and from Pierre’s, the father. —The book contains black and white photos. —pascale Kremer has been a journalist with Le Monde for twenty years.

Marielle blanchier is 43 ; she is a mother of 12 children and lives in Sceaux in the Parisian region with her whole family.—

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the incredible story of Marielle, mother of twelve children.Marielle was born in Holland in a family of three children. She grew up in Bordeaux and opted out of a doctorate in physics and chemistry. She left on an Erasmus ex-change to King’s College in London, where she met her future husband, who was just finishing his engineering training. After postgraduate studies in food-proces-sing management, Marielle got married at 22. She started working and had two mis-carriages in quick succession. At 24, she was expecting twins, and then followed her husband abroad. When she returned to France she had four children under three and decided to stop working. Eight more children were to come into the world. In all, ten boys and two girls. It was not a conscious decision, but each new child be-came an obvious choice. Marielle tells us about her daily life with her twelve children.Her days follow a tight schedule : grocery shopping, cooking, school runs, mana-ging conflicts, colds in the winter, leisure activities, holidays, etc.

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“Shame… Is it tolerable that it sticks to the skin of a child ? That it tortures the soul of a little girl who quickly understands that few people have consideration for her origins. Therefore, she is ashamed to be an Arab. She dreams of being called Émilie, of being blonde with blue eyes, of having her own room, all to herself, full of toys. In reality, she is ashamed when her mother, covered by her veil, enveloped in her shapeless djellaba, comes to get her at the school gates and speaks Arabic in front of Lucille and Nicolas. She is ashamed to say that she is going on holiday to Algeria, while they’re going to the south of France. Even if it’s in the same direction, and almost the same land !”

—Du côté de chez moi is a story in the tradition of Le gone du Chaaba by Azouz Begag (1986) or Kiffe Kiffe demain by Faïza Guène (2004).

—salima senini was born in 1977 in Algeria. When she was three-month-old, her parents moved to a council house in Paris’ suburbs. All her life, she has been torn between her Algerian heritage and Wes-tern culture. Now at 36, she is at peace with herself and works as a social worker in Paris.

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In 1977, Salima had three months when her parents and seven brothers and sisters left Algeria and moved to Mantes-la-Jolie, in the Parisian suburbs, to a new neigh-bourhood consisting of huge apartment blocks, known as Val-Fourré. Very soon, Val Fourré was deserted by native French people and became an urban ghetto for immigrant families from North Africa. 35 years later, the young woman, now Parisian, looks back on her childhood. she describes the painful gap between her parents’ world and the western modernity that she gradually discovered and that attracted her. Parado-xically, the arrival of Arabic TV channels and satellites reinforced the native culture or favoured the rise of Islamism. Between imposed traditions, sibling bonds among the eight children, and her dreams of emancipation, Salima sought a way of life to suit her. She secretly rejected the constraints of feminine codes – cooking, virginity and marriage – and found her path to freedom in books. this first book relates both the upheavals of immigration and the life-changing power of reading.

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On 17 September 1986, Patrick Denaud was one of the first journalists present just after the bombing in the Rue de Rennes (Paris) that resulted in 7 deaths and 55 casualties. Deeply shocked by this carnage, Patrick now has but one goal : to fight Islamic terrorism. He got back in touch with the French secret services, which had already approached him on his return from Afghanistan. His cover would be his profession as a journalist. behind his impeccable career as a journalist, he secretly served as a spy for the French intelligent army. In this book, he des-cribes his recruitment, training and all aspects of his daily life as a journalist / spy. For the “agency”, he accepted to lead a double live. Lies and manipulation became second nature and solitude in daily life came with the territory. This book is also a confession and the examination of a conscience.

“I was a journalist reporting on Islam in Eu-rope : end of story. I was totally inconspicuous. I’m still persuaded that even a trained agent could not have acquired the reflexes, codes and journalistic culture that the years of work in the field had inculcated in me.”

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“For the first time, a journalist admits he worked for the French secret services. Patrick Denaud breaks the silence et reveals his double life and his manipulations in a ‘disturbing’ book.”Le parisien Magazine

“You read Silence will keep you as a novel. It demystifies the James Bond image of the spy, showing the small boring tasks asked, far from what you see at the cinema.”La charente Libre

—Cameraman for TF1 and war correspondent for CBS News, patrick Denaud cofounded Doc Reporter and chaired the Syndicat des agences de press (AFP, Reuters, RTL, Eu-rope 1, M6…).

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Christian Bobin is the author of many successful books (Gallimard, Le Mercure de France) and presents here 15 new tales. his unique and poetic eye transfigures daily life and incites contemplation. These tales are portraits, encounters or visions, in which we recognise eve-rything that has made the author of The Missing Part, or The More than alive so successful. In his writing, moments of grace oscillate with ecstatic contemplation. god is never far from the poetry that emanates from his attentive observation of beings and things. —christian bobin was born in 1951 in Le Creusot. He lives near his hometown, in a house in the heart of the forest, where he devotes himself entirely to writing. He is the author of nearly twenty books, including :

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– The Missing Part (Gallimard, 1989),

– The Very Lowly (Gallimard, 1992) / Prix des Deux Magots 1993 / Grand Prix of Catholic Literature 1993,

– The More than alive (Gallimard, 1996),

– Prisoner in the cradle (Mercure de France, 2005),

– The ruins of the sky (Gallimard, 2009) / Prix du livre de spiritualité Panorama La Procure.

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“Very chic, a little snobby, often absurd, almost always off the cuff and voluntarily neurotic, these drawings are the embodiment of New Yorkers’ wit.” Le Monde

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120 foolish deaths from Antiquity to the 21st Century.—

9 theMatic chaptersThe fatally greedy – The fatally libertine – The fatally miserly – The fatally curious – The fatally sensitive – The fatally exposed – The fatally active – The fatally calm – The fatally outlandish—

soMe exaMplesaeschylus (circa 525-456 B.C.)The Greek tragedian had his skull fractured by a tortoise that fell from the clutches of a bird of prey.

Lawrence of arabia (1888-1935)After having escaped death in the desert, faced Turkish soldiers, Arab antagonists and libe-rated half of the Near East, “Lawrence of Arabia” died after coming off the road on his mo-torcycle in the English countryside.

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an illustrated psychology book to teach meditationMeditation is increasingly popular because it gently eliminates stress and tension. Chris-tophe André, who has been meditating for 10 years, introduces the reader to this practice through comprehensible methods, adapted illustrations, and a CD of guided meditations that he created.

the paintings that illustrate the meditations communicate the mental and phy-sical reality of this training. Finally, the exercises at the end of the chapters, along with a CD of short guides to meditating (5 to 15 minutes in length) allow the reader to experiment with this approach at home.

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the deeply moving testimony of a survivorThe true story of a conscious coma. She was completely paralyzed and they thought she was in a coma. She could hear the stream of tearful family members visiting, but was hel-pless. On July 13th 2009, Angèle Lieby went to work. She felt a tingling in her fingers, and had an increasingly painful migraine. It got to the point where she finally had to go home and call the emergency medical service.At the Hospital, she was put in a medically induced coma in order to be intubated. The coma was supposed to last three days. On the fourth day, she did not wake up. but inside this lifeless body, angèle was conscious. she could hear everything. but no one knew it. she received treatment without anyone bothering to anesthetize her. she suf-fered without being able to react.

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pages 234 pubLication March 2012

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Nwanko est le patron de la brigade financière de Lagos au Nigéra. Une nuit, il est exfiltré avec sa famille par les services secrets anglais. Il enquête de trop près sur le dé-tournement de la manne pétrolière.

Lira est journaliste à Saint-Pétersbourg. Elle piste Louch-ki, l’homme qui monte en Russie. L’oligarque négocie avec la France l’achat de sous-marins nucléaires de la troisième génération.

Félix est greffier au tribunal de Nice. Il participe à une perquisition sur le yacht de Linda Stephensen. Son corps vient d’être retrouvé flottant au large des côtes, en tenue de soirée.

Une série de meurtres les rapproche. Lira est agressée au vitriol et perd la vue. Nwanko sacrifie sa famille. Félix file à Londres. Ils sont seuls et vulnérables, mais ils détien-nent un secret. Et n’ont plus rien à perdre.

Leur survie se joue entre les îles Féroë et un hameau perdu des Cévennes. Les services secrets occidentaux et les équipes de Louchki sont à leurs trousses.

Leur destin est scellé : rester debout et ensemble face au chaos du monde. Jusqu’au dénouement final, déroutant.

Avec Les Yeux de Lira, le duo Eva Joly – Judith Perrignon s’attaque au polar avec jubilation et plonge le lecteur dans une véritable course poursuite sans retour possible.

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On the same day Thaïs turned two, anne-Dauphine Julliand learned that her daughter was suffering from an incurable disease. Her heartrending story tells the struggle of their relatives and friends, a moving network of solidarity, all united for one magnificent cause : to make Thaïs’s short life as beautiful as possible. they were all blessed in return with the most precious gift of all : her unrestrained liveliness, joy and love.

a stunning duetEva Joly and Judith Perrignon have been working for the past two years on this captivating thriller. Their novel associates a perfect grasp of financial networks with the dark sides of power and criminal investigations, with unforgettable atmospheres in the Faroe Islands, at the Nice Courthouse or again the Quai d’Orsay (France). in the wave of nordic who-dunits, Lira’s Eyes is a thriller that will leave readers on the edge of their seat, written in the tone of a high-speed car chase. The background is the countdown to an imminent financial apocalypse. It dives into the depth of the sheltered abyss of widespread corruption, inhabited by a cold-blooded Russian oligarch, a corrupt offshore banker, croo-ked lawyers, and a prosecutor whose hands are tied. A low ranked trio will step up to this politico-financial Leviathan figure, who is at the height of his power and influence.

“An undeniable proof to those who saw the financial crisis as unrelated to globalized capitalism.”Libération

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6Moisthe photoJournalisM Magazine

the best of journalism. the best of photography.

6Mois is a twice-yearly features magazine. The editorial office chooses twelve portfolios, 25 to 35 pages each, to narrate the 21st century in pictures. Twelve real-life adventures, twelve true stories, all thoroughly, comprehensively and carefully accounted for. The purpose is to depict the 21st century in pictures backed with captions, interviews, features, stories. Photo-graphy is a universal language ; words bring the precision, the depth, the reverse angle. One must see far, beyond our borders, and embrace our time. The authors of 6Mois are Chinese, Ecuadorian, Russian, Belgian, Canadian, Somali, American, French…

“We dreamt up 6Mois to reconnect journalism with photography, renew the pact between readers and photographers, find the meeting point between the public’s taste and the astonishing energy of the authors.”Marie-pierre subtil, chief editor

—Marie-pierre subtil was a journalist for over 20 years with Le Monde. She was a foreign correspondent when she joined 6Mois.

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L’appareil. Un Leica iii C, ce qu’on faisait de mieux à l’époque. Confié à un photographe de la section de propagande de la Wehrmacht, puis de la Kriegsmarine. embarqué sur l’un des sous-marins géants construits par les nazis, capables d’aller jusqu’au bout du monde. en mai 1945, à Hong Kong, l’équipage du sous-marin se rend aux Britanniques. Le photographe possède trois Leica – un véritable trésor, que les Britanniques lui rendent poliment. sept ans plus tard, en 1952, l’un de ces appareils •••

Des gamins se ruent vers le distributeur de bonbons, en 1955, à Bonn.

1952-1967. L’Allemagne de l’Ouest se relève de la guerre. Josef Darchinger, photographe autodidacte, tient la chronique d’une classe moyenne heureuse.

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▲ Une image d’Epinal du milieu des années 1960 : l’ouvrier spécialisé avec ses deux enfants et sa voiture, à proximité de son appartement neuf. ▲ A Francfort, un grand centre commercial édifié dans un quartier complètement détruit par la guerre.

Autre image d’Epinal, une famille de la classe moyenne supérieure « au naturel » dans son jardin.

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le beaugosseClint Eastwood a interprété tous les personnages qui ont forgé la mythologie du cinéma hollywoodien. A plus de 80 ans, le cinéaste américain reste fidèle à sa règle : ne jamais être là où on l’attend.Par Samuel Douhaire

1956. Elève comédien dans une école de jeunes talents de Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood pose lors d’une séance photo.

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Photobiographie — Clint Eastwood

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aucun prisonnier n’est récupéré, un mercenaire est tué.mais il est aussi plus progressiste que nombre de Démocrates sur bien des sujets de société. eastwood est pour le droit à l’avortement – poussé par ses parents, il a financé l’avortement de sa première petite amie dans les années 1950 – et le contrôle des ventes d’armes. il combat le racisme dans ses films comme dans ses déclarations publiques, et sa vie privée a de quoi horrifier les militants bigots de la droite américaine. marié, il entretient depuis 1973 une tumultueuse liaison publique avec l’actrice sondra Locke. Lassée des infidélités de son époux, qui a déjà reconnu en 1963 un enfant

conçu avec une figurante de Rawhide, maggie eastwood obtient le divorce en 1984. Quatre ans plus tard, sondra Locke est à son tour délaissée. L’acteur réalisateur épouse la comédienne Frances Fisher, qui lui donnera une fille. Après des années de procédures, sondra Locke se vengera en publiant en 1997 un livre assassin sur son ex, qualifié de « super macho » et de « radin » : eastwood ne paierait jamais son addition au restaurant. Ces années 1980 sont agitées. excédé de se voir refuser un permis de construire, Clint eastwood se présente aux municipales à Carmel. sa dizaine d’hectares achetés vingt ans plus tôt pour y établir le ranch

de ses rêves s’est agrandi. La ferme d’origine a été aménagée en hôtel de luxe doté d’un parcours de golf huppé. il est élu en 1986 avec 72,5 % des voix et gère la petite communauté de 4 000 habitants comme il réalise ses films, avec « un sens puissant de ce qui (est) bien, mal et, surtout, pratique », écrit son biographe richard schickel. On lui prédit un parcours à la ronald reagan : gouverneur de Californie, puis président. L’écrivain norman mailer n’avait-il pas noté qu’il a « un visage de Président » ? Fidèle à ses engagements de campagne – « C’est à Carmel que mon intérêt pour la politique commence et s’arrête » –, il reste maire deux ans. et enfonce le clou après sa

démission : « Pour rester politicien, on est obligé de mentir, de perdre son âme (…) Je veux pouvoir dire ce que je veux. »

Le temps des oscarseastwood peut revenir pleinement au cinéma. il est consacré en 1993 grâce au western Impitoyable, qui lui vaut l’oscar du meilleur réalisateur et du meilleur film, une reconnaissance longtemps attendue. Dans Impitoyable, il filme les grands espaces avec le lyrisme d’un John Ford pour mieux montrer un Far West sauvage dont l’argent est le moteur et la violence, la règle. La beauté crépusculaire du film séduit. pour le Los Angeles Times, c’est « le meilleur

western depuis 1956 ». Le film réalise 14 millions de dollars de recettes dans sa première semaine d’exploitation. A 62 ans, le cinéaste triomphe. reconnu par ses pairs, honoré par les cinémathèques, salué dans les festivals du monde entier et loué par une presse quasi-unanime, il ne craint plus rien. ses films médiocres reçoivent des dithyrambes aussi disproportionnés que pouvait l’être le « Eastwood-bashing » vingt ans plus tôt.Ce nouveau statut lui ouvre la voie de toutes les audaces. il réalise dans la foulée Minuit dans le jardin du bien et du mal, un film lent, complexe, mystérieux, à rebours des impératifs hollywoodiens. Décidé à ne plus

jouer pour les autres, il n’hésite pas à se montrer sans fard, le poids des ans sur son physique ridé d’ex-jeune premier. « Ce qu’on voit surtout du visage d’Eastwood », notent Les Cahiers du cinéma, c’est son impressionnante « veine sur la droite du front » : « On a même l’impression qu’il fait tout pour qu’on la voit, et qu’on ne voit qu’elle. » Dans Sur la route de Madison, il surprend à nouveau. incarnant un photographe amoureux de meryl streep, il sublime le mauvais roman à l’eau de rose en chef d’œuvre du mélodrame. Un journaliste s’étonne de voir L’inspecteur Harry dans un rôle si tendre. il lui répond avec humour qu’il n’a jamais couru « avec un flingue »

En 1972, Clint rencontre Sondra Locke. Elle a 25 ans, lui 40. Ils tournent plusieurs films ensemble et entretiennent une longue liaison qui aboutit à la rupture avec Maggie.

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Frances Fisher, sa nouvelle compagne, accouche d’une petite fille, Francesca. C’est aussi sa première année de consécration : il obtient deux oscars pour « Impitoyable ».

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Il devient maire de Carmel-by-the-sea, une station balnéaire au sud de San Francisco. Son intérêt pour la politique a toujours été manifeste. Mais c’est d’abord pour s’octroyer un permis de construire refusé depuis longtemps qu’il se fait élire.

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