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- ↑ Décès du dramaturge Michel Vinaver à 95 ans Le Figaro (in French)
- ↑ Le Monde, 19 September 2021
- Peter France (4 May 1995). The new Oxford companion to literature in French . Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
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