Almanach Hachette is one of the great annuals from the era of almanacs. It was the record of the life of France in a year. From the oddest oddities of the year to the relative size of pigs and sheep throughout Europe to the quantity of automobiles on the continent, these books of facts and factoids documented anything and everything.
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