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- ↑ Travers, James (2006). "Review of the film Tumultes (1932)". frenchfilms.org. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ Conway, Kelley (2004). Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93857-1.