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- ↑ Louis Prosper Gachard, Actes des États Généraux de 1632 (Brussels, 1853), pp. 3-5.
- ↑ Louis Prosper Gachard, Actes des États Généraux de 1632 , vol. 2 (Brussels, 1866), p. 710.
- ↑ Louis Prosper Gachard, Actes des États Généraux de 1632 (Brussels, 1853), pp. 63–67.
- ↑ 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.