An Irish author's books have been pulled from the shelves of The National Library in France, due to concerns that the book covers might contain arsenic.
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19th-century books with green covers contain worrying levels of arsenic, prompting some libraries to remove them from the shelves. Arsenic was combined with copper to create the vivid green.