different. Indeed, not one but four books have been removed from France’s national library (which contains a collection of more than 16 million books), over concerns that their covers may be ...

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Four 19th-century books suspected to contain arsenic, a poisonous substance, in their covers have been removed from France’s national library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.