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- ↑ Yoshihiro Kimura (木村 喜博) (1987). A Study on the Formation of National Identity in the Arab East (東アラブ国家形成の研究). 研究双書. アジア経済研究所 (Institute of Developing Economies). p. 93. ISBN 978-4-258-04354-5.
- ↑ Fawaz, Leila Tarazi (1983). Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-century Beirut. Harvard Middle Eastern studies. Harvard University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-0-674-56925-6 . Retrieved 2023-06-17.
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Alphonse Durighello and his wife Celeste had twelve children of which only seven - four girls and three boys - survived to adulthood. Of the girls Eulalie - born in Aleppo in 1845 - married in 1864 Job Abela (brother of Habib mentioned earlier)... According to Dr. Shaker Khoury, writing about the families of Damour, the wedding of Shaker Haykal to Eugenie Durighello and his brother Boutros to Angelique Abela, (daughter of the British Consul in Saida), which was celebrated on the same day, was hailed as the best the country had ever seen.
- ↑ F.O. 195/1153, George Jackson Eldridge to Austen Henry Layard, No. 48, 10-5-1877; quoted in Fawaz, 1983, p.90