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References
- 1 2 Les Monarchomaques, Gallica (in French)
- ↑ Memo.fr Archived 2007-05-07 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- ↑ Un pouvoir constituant... pour libres professeurs ? (on the book of Jean Fabien Spitz, John Locke et les fondements de la liberté moderne), by François Matheron, Multitudes, June 2002 (in French)
- ↑ Jacques Clément avant Ravaillac, Le Figaro , 30 November 2006 (in French)
- ↑ Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1978, p. 301.
