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- ↑ cf « Une étude en noir », Tracés, n°20 et Enigmes et complots : Une enquête à propos d'enquêtes, Gallimard, 2011.
- ↑ The French term cité has apparently been translated differently in On Justification (polity) and The New Spirit of Capitalism. (city)
