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- ↑ "Marc Raynaud, l'international septimanien". La Dépêche (in French). 9 August 2005.
- ↑ "French selectors reach for guillotine". The Independent . 11 March 1999.
- ↑ "L'actualité du sport en continu". L'Équipe (in French). 16 May 2009.