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La Force des choses first published in Paris by Librairie Gallimard 1963
This translation published in Great Britain
by André Deustch and Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1965
Published in Penguin Books 1968
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Copyright © Libairie Gallimard, 1964
Translation copyright © G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964, 1965
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