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- ↑ "Mme Antoinette Guhl" (in French). Senate.
- ↑ "Antoinette Guhl". Paris.fr (in French).
- ↑ "Législative partielle (20e) : Antoinette Guhl veut représenter l'écologie à l'Assemblée". Le journal du Grand Paris (in French). 6 March 2021.
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