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- ↑ Yves Durand: Les Grands carmes de Nantes: un couvent dans la ville: 1318-1790, Rome, Édition carmelitane, coll. "Textus et studia historica carmelitana" (No. 23), 1997, ISBN 8872880467
- ↑ Jean-Baptiste Eriau: L'ancien Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques (1604-1792), 1929, Paris, de Gigord, A. Picard
- ↑ "Les Grands Carmes de Paris" in Abbayes, monastères et couvents de Paris, Paul and Marie-Louise Biver
- ↑ Website of the Convent of La Tourette
- ↑ "The Capuchins: History and Current Community". dioiscrestois.cef.fr (in French).
- ↑ Register of the Poor Clares at Gravelines (pdf)