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References
- Correspondance politique de Odet de Selve, Paris (1888)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Selve, Odet de". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 614.
- ↑ Robert Hutchinson (historian), p.281, The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
- ↑ Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Correspondance Politique de Odet de Selve, Ambassadeur de France en Angleterre (Paris, 1888), pp. 418-9 no. 449.
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