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- ↑ "Les grandes étapes de l'affaire", Libération, 18 September 2009. (in French)
- 1 2 France ex-PM Villepin cleared of Sarkozy smear, BBC News, 28 January 2010
- ↑ "L'Enquête". Allocine (in French). Retrieved 26 February 2017.