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- ↑ (in French) Jean-Charles Darmon
- ↑ (in French)La lettre de l’École normale supérieure, no 92, mars 2007.
- ↑ (in French) Jean-Charles DARMON
- ↑ (in French)Pierre Ronzeaud, Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France, 2002/1, vol. 102, p. 158–159.
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