The first works to be digitised will range from feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), to the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775).

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Mr. Lagerfeld was also one of the first to learn of Ms. Kruger's role as Marie Antoinette in "Farewell, My Queen, " a new film about the Franco-Austrian queen's final three days in the court of Versailles.

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