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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apcontinue="Barbe_Nicole_Ponsardin" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="547" ns="0" title="Barbara Campanini" />
      <p pageid="2802" ns="0" title="Barbara Campanini/Henri Lyonnet" />
      <p pageid="2752" ns="0" title="Barbara Diefendorf" />
      <p pageid="562" ns="0" title="Barbara Villiers" />
      <p pageid="266" ns="0" title="Barbe Avrillot" />
      <p pageid="1058" ns="0" title="Barbe Avrillot/Hilarion de Coste" />
      <p pageid="3194" ns="0" title="Barbe Cochois" />
      <p pageid="3195" ns="0" title="Barbe Cochois/Fortunée Briquet" />
      <p pageid="2442" ns="0" title="Barbe Giroust de Morency" />
      <p pageid="2443" ns="0" title="Barbe Giroust de Morency/Fortunée Briquet" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
</api>