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FRENCH WOMEN WORKING IN AMMUNITION FACTORIES 



Mythology relates that Jupiter, as a reward for the excellence of the thunderbolts forged 

 by his crippled son, Vulcan, bestowed upon him the hand of the fairest of the immortals — 

 Venus. The daughters of France have inherited their beauty from the Cytherean goddess 

 and their skill in making modern thunderbolts of battle from the Olympian blacksmith. 



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