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- ↑ du Tillet, Evrard Titon (1732). Le Parnasse François, dédié au Roi. Paris: Coignard.
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- ↑ Mellers, Wilfrid (2007). Francois Couperin and the French Classical Tradition. READ BOOKS. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-4067-0684-0.
- ↑ Montagnier, Jean-Paul (1998). Super flumina Babilonis of Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era. Vol. 84. A-R Editions, Inc. pp. ix. ISBN 0-89579-394-6.
