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I had decided to limit (for the time being, at least) my examination of the archives of the Louvre's Department of Egyptian Antiquities, which are held in the Archives nationales, to 1914. Article 20144775/2 "Administration" contains numerous files that mark out the history of the department on a wide variety of subjects ((They are listed in detail in the finding aid for this deposit.)) One of the files from 1913 concerns a trivial episode of a window damaged, apparently by a visitor, and the...