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- ↑ Louis Prosper Gachard, Actes des États Généraux de 1600 (Brussels, 1849), pp. 99–110.
- ↑ Not all representatives of the third estate were themselves members of the third estate: a mayor or alderman could represent the common inhabitants of a city while bearing a noble title.