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We present intermediate dispersion optical spectroscopy of the M 33 star B517 (Humphreys & Sandage 1980ApJS...44..319H) obtained at the 3.5m Calar Alto and 4.2m William Herschel Telescopes. Our data reveal a spectral type of WN11h, closely resembling the Galactic LBV candidate He 3-519 (Smith et al. 1994A&A...281..833S). We find that B517 is the WNL star observed by Esteban et al. (1994AJ....107.1041E), named MC70 therein, and present a spectral analysis using the Hillier (1990A&A...231..116H) iterative scheme. We find that its stellar parameters (T_*=27kK, log L/L_☉=5.74, log {dot}(M)/M_☉/yr=-4.3, v_∞=275km/s) are similar to LMC WN11 stars (Crowther & Smith 1996, submitted), with a higher helium content (H/He∼0.8 by number), suggesting a post-LBV evolutionary status. Keywords: stars: Wolf-Rayet - galaxies: individual: M 33 - stars: individual: B517 (M 33) [HS80] B517 - galaxies: stellar content