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- ↑ See Diane de Beausacq
- ↑ Cavour, Camillo Benso di (1894) Count Cavour and Madame de Circourt, Some Unpublished Correspondence; edited by Count Nigra; translated by Arthur John Butler. London: Cassell; p. 129
- ↑ Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains: contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays étrangers, Hachette, 1858, p. 1633
- ↑ fr:Diane de Beausacq