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- ↑ Paul Arblaster, From Ghent to Aix: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands (Leiden and Boston, 2014), ch. 3. Partial view on Google Books.
- ↑ Bibliotheca belgica: Bibliographie générale des Pays-Bas, 1967.
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