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- ↑ "Lucien Fliffel". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1956". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ↑ "43ème Tour de France 1956". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
- ↑ "Embareck Fliffel's Palmares at CyclingRanking". CyclingRanking.com.
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