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- ↑ Denise Hizette, Education funding in Europe: two hundred and five profiles of foundations and corporate funders active in education in Europe and intercontinentally, European Foundation Centre, 1998, p. 73
- ↑ John Ardagh, France in the new century: portrait of a changing society, Viking, 1999, p. 180
- ↑ Pierre Roger, Vers l'État charitable?, Editions de l'Atelier, 2000, p. 56
- ↑ Élisabeth Laville, L'entreprise verte : Le développement durable change l'entreprise pour changer le monde, Pearson Education France, 2009, p. 134
- 1 2 Patrick Refalo, Rémi Remondière, Nicole Frazier-Bouzouaoui, Concours d'entrée éducateur de la PJJ: Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse, Elsevier Masson, 2009, p. 162
- 1 2 FACE Board of Directors Archived 2013-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
