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- ↑ Archive publique de la province de Brabant, Arrondissement de Nivelles
- ↑ Service public de Wallonie (2010). Court-Saint-Étienne, Mont-Saint-Guibert et Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve. Patrimoine architectural et territoires de Wallonie. Vol. 16. Catherine Dhem et Geneviève Rulens. p. 116. ISBN 9782804700652.
- (nl) Xavier Duquenne, « Drie Duitse tuinarchitecten (Charles-Henri Petersen 1792-1859, Louis Fuchs 1818-1904, Édouard Keilig 1827-1895) », in Historische woonsteden & tuinen, 2008, No. 1, pp. 19–22.