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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guiart, Guillaume". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 683.; endnotes:
- See A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii. (Paris, 1903).
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