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VOL. XXII, NO. 2

JUNE 1949

THE LUX IN BENELUX

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By Professor Amy Nimax . . - 4 3 SAINT TROPEZ ‘BRAVADE’

Notes and Photographs by Richard Dormer 51

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THE JERSEY CHARACTER

By Joan andJohn R. Simmons

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11. Search and Research By Kenneth Williams . . . 64 AWARENESS OF EUROPE

By Kenneth Lindsay, M .P. . . . 73 Photogravure Supplement . Facing page 74 WHERE ROMANCE STILL LINGERS :

THE CAMARGUE By Maurice Moyal .... 75

Cover: An Old Guard, St Tropez

Richard Dormer from Toni Muir

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