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- ↑ We also find Matthieu, but it only appear in 1823, in Ouvrage de La Fontaine and in the biographical dictionaries after his death.
- ↑ Mathieu Marais, Journal and Memoirs, vol.1, 1863.
- ↑ Mathieu Marais, in a letter to president Bouhier dated September 5, 1724, said that Jean Marais sometimes printed his name "Marays" or "Marais". J. Marais wrote Memoirs, and a Discours sur la détractation sur la légitime entre les enfants (Discourse on the Detraction on Legitimacy Between Children) in 1693. Mathieu didn't like this man, of whom he was "neither his relative nor his ally". (Cf. Correspondance littéraire du président Bouhier n°8 : Lettres de Mathieu Marais (1724-1737), vol.1, 1974.)
- ↑ Pierre and Firmin Didot, Nouvelle biographie générale, vol.33, 1860.
- ↑ Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, vol.26, 1860.
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