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- ↑ (in French)Académie de Bruxelles, deux siècles d'architecture, Bruxelles, Archives d'architecture moderne, 1989, pp. 35, 38, 79 (note 74), 162, 166, 167, 169, 170, 172, 202.
- ↑ (in French) François de Pierpont, « Le château de Duras », in Le Parchemin, September–October 2009, p. 353.
- ↑ (in French) Anne and Paul van Ypersele de Strihou, Laeken, résidence impériale et royale, Bruxelles, 1970, p. 27
- ↑ (in French) Xavier Duquenne, Le parc de Wespelaar, le jardin anglais en Belgique au XVIII siecle, Bruxelles 2001, pp. 43-55.
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