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  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  Một hoặc nhiều câu trên đây có sử dụng văn bản nay đã thuộc phạm vi công cộng, được lấy từ: Esmein, Adhémar (1911). “France § History”. Trong Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica 10 (ấn bản 11). Nhà xuất bản Đại học Cambridge. tr. 869–921. 
  4. Howard Jones (1999). Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. U of Nebraska Press. tr. 183. ISBN 0803225822
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  6. Michele Cunningham, Mexico and the foreign policy of Napoleon III (Springer, 2001).
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  13. 1 2 Wiriath, Paul. A Short History of France, Illustrated (London: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1914), p. 107. This was a favorite maxim of Napoleon III.