[LonePalm]

< a href="imageURL">< img src="imageURL" width="600" />

That should be:
{<*a href="imageURL"><*img src="imageURL" width="600"><*/img><*/a>}

Remove the two brackets and the four asterisks.

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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[numberonepal]

You don’t need the end image tag. That was done in the original with the slash before the end.

[Melian]

Re Remove brackets:

Reaching back to Catholic school, I believe those are called braces.
{{ Sister John Ann peers down at me.}}