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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <querypage qpoffset="10" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <querypage name="Ancientpages">
      <results>
        <page value="20141030083336" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:33:36Z" ns="0" title="Eugène Auguste Balloff (1877-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083348" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:33:48Z" ns="0" title="Auguste Victor Berger (1888-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083352" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:33:52Z" ns="0" title="Emile Arthur Besnard (1890-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083400" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:00Z" ns="0" title="Lucien Maurice Victor Boitieux (1889-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083401" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:01Z" ns="0" title="Henri Bontemps (1883-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083402" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:02Z" ns="0" title="Louis Bossu (1874-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083407" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:07Z" ns="0" title="Georges Henri Boulay (1882-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083409" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:09Z" ns="0" title="Marcel Nicolas Lucien Boyer (1893-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083413" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:13Z" ns="0" title="Jacques Brindeau (1889-1914)" />
        <page value="20141030083416" timestamp="2014-10-30T08:34:16Z" ns="0" title="Alfred Jules Burgi (1885-1914)" />
      </results>
    </querypage>
  </query>
</api>