The 
sign may be a mistake of the engraver of FE (→EE). However, Chopin's proofreading cannot be entirely excluded: it may be that the composer wanted to prevent the next fragment from being performed without pedal or, which is more likely, he was thinking about a short pedal encompassing the octave leap of the top voice in the R.H.
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category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Errors in FE, Authentic corrections of FE, No pedal release mark
notation: Pedalling
