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Excerpt from Marionnettes Et Guignols: Les Poupees Agissantes Et Parlantes A Travers les Ages
Magnin trouve bien d'autres exemples aussi frappants. La statue fatidique de Jupiter Ammon, dit-il, ne rendait ses oracles, suivant le t�moignage de l)iodore de Sicile, qu'apr�s avoir �t� port�e en procession dans une na celle d'or, sur les �paules de quatre-vingts pr�tres, auxquels elle indiquait, par un meure ment de't�te, la route qu'elle voulait suivre.
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