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- ↑ "Contact Archived 2013-02-05 at the Wayback Machine ." Lycée Jean-Piaget. Retrieved on 14 May 2014. "Lycée Jean-Piaget Ecole supérieure de commerce de Neuchâtel Rue des Beaux-Arts 30"
- ↑ "French as a Foreign Language Archived 2013-02-05 at the Wayback Machine ." Lycée Jean-Piaget. Retrieved on 14 May 2014.
