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- ↑ "Four Duels in France. Count de Lubersac Ready to Meet Both Rothschilds" (PDF). The New York Times. April 3, 1900. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Lubersac Fights a Duel; Wounds M. Ephrussi in the Breast in First of Encounters Due to Quarrel with Rothschild". The New York Times. April 5, 1900. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ↑ "A Rothschild in a Duel: Baron Robert Wounds Count of Lubersac Near Paris. Adversaries Fought Sixteen Fierce Bouts with Swords--Affair Grew Out of a Quarrel At College" (PDF). The New York Times. January 21, 1901. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
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