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- ↑ Strzeżek (1998), pp. 100–101.
- ↑ Czarzasty, ¶ 5 "Pierwszy polski grób zbiorowy…".
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- (in Polish)Piotr Czarzasty (October 2014). PAP (corporate author) (ed.). "Francja. Polskie nekropolie - Montmartre, Pere Lachaise, Montmorency" [France, Polish cemeteries: Montparnasse, Pere Lachaise, Montmorency]. Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
{{cite journal}}:|editor=has generic name (help) - (in Polish)Tomasz Strzeżek (1998). Kornelia Kompanowska (ed.). Warszawa 1831[Warsaw 1831]. Historyczne Bitwy. Warsaw: Dom Wydawniczy Bellona. ISBN 978-83-11-08793-4.
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