When I pulled the transmission and clutch from the donor car, the owner told me that he bought it cheap because there was a "problem with the clutch," and they could not fix it.  Having dealt with the corner mechanic's response to Citroen systems in the past, I've learned to discount prophecies of doom from said mechanics.  Sure enough, when I installed the whole system and bled it out, it would not declutch.  So, out it came, and it got a nice cleaning and reassembly. Citroen hydraulic mechanisms are elegantly simple.  In most cases, the only moving part is a piston within a sleeve. The piston slides within a cylinder with only a thin layer of LHM as lubricant. What makes this possible is the precise machine work of the parts.  The piston is only microns smaller than the cylinder.  Small enough to allow a layer of LHM to bathe the parts, but large enough to prevent a large leak.  

I've made some of these images as large as possible, to help viewing.

I've removed the snap ring; you can see it at the right. I'm  removing the retaining ring with the snap-ring pliers.   You can see the piston in the 'fully-out' position in the body of the slave cylinder.  I now see why the clutch was not operating. The piston was lodged in the  'fully-out' position, so it could not actuate the clutch.  Visible in the photo is the rubber boot (8).

I tapped the piston back into the cylinder to loosen it.  It took one tap with a rubber mallet on the socket.  I irrigated the cylinder with LHM both on this side and also through the master-cylinder & bleed hole connections.   Once the piston was loosened and irrigated, it slid out of the cylinder very easily. 

Piston(4) is 57mm in length.   Note the differences in diameters along the length.   The white stripe on the right is a teflon ring(14).  The darker stripe is a ring of felt(20).  Once saturated with LHM, it acts as a seal between the pressure side of the piston and the rubber-booted side of the piston.