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References
- Everett F. Bleiler. French Voyages into Imaginary Lands, in: Science Fiction Studies # 63 = Volume 21, Part 2 = July 1994
- Geoffroy Atkinson, The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700, 1920 (reissue 1966, AMS Press, Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature; also in Google books)
- Marrone Caterina, Le lingue utopiche Nuovi Equilibri, Viterbo, 2004 [1995], p. 338, ISBN 88-7226-815-X
