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- ↑ A. D. Thierry, Histoire de la ville de Toul et de ses évêques, Paris, 1841, pp. 35-37
- ↑ J.P. Migne, Nouvelle encyclopédie théologique, vol. 9, 1851, pp. 423-424.
- ↑ Abbé Pierre-Etienne Guillaume, Histoire du diocèse de Toul et de celui de Nancy, vol. 1, Nancy, 1867, p. 105.
- ↑ in either Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis, vol 45, ed. D. Verhelst (Turnhout, 1976),[ page needed ] or J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Latina , CXXXVI, 589-60.[ page needed ]
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