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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Aikin, John (1815). General Biography. Ten volumes.- Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques; Eugene F. Jr Rice (1972). "Epistle 93". Papers of Lefevre D Etaples. Columbia University Press. p. 284. ISBN 0-231-03163-7.
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