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- ↑ "L'affaire du "Courrier de Lyon".
- ↑ Gaston Delayen, L'Affaire du Courrier de Lyon, 1905, p. 420
- ↑ Goscinny and Uderzo. Le Tour de Gaule d'Asterix. p. 24.
