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- 1 2 3 4 National Assembly: Waldeck L'Huillier
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Senate: Waldeck L'Huillier
- ↑ Pierre Alexis Gourevitch, Paris and the Provinces: The Politics of Local Government Reform in France, University of California Press, 1980, p.12
- ↑ Jacques Girault, Des communistes en France: années 1920-années 1960, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002 , p. 410
- ↑ Melissa K. Byrnes, French Like Us? Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisian Banlieues, 1945—1975, ProQuest, 2008 , p. 41
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