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- 1 2 3 4 5 Lodge 1926, p. 15.
- ↑ Merlet ´Procès´, Pièces Justificatives, I, p. 314, quoting Cartulaire de Bigorre, ch. 39.
- ↑ Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture, 2nd Edition, Vol.3, Ed. William Duckett, (Aux Comptoirs de la Direction, 1856), 200.
- ↑ Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture, 2nd Edition, Vol.3, Ed. William Duckett, Aux Comptoirs de la Direction, 1856.
- ↑ Merlet ´Procès´, Pièces Justificatives, XIV, p. 322, quoting Cartulaire de Bigorre, ch. 36.