Jules Vallès, Le tableau de Paris, preface and notes by Marie-Claire Bancquart, Lettres françaises, Paris: Messidor, 1989, ISBN9782209061495, p. 338(in French).
Frédéric Loliée, adapted by Bryan O'Donnell, The Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire, New York: Brentano's / London: Long, 1910, OCLC587420, pp. 71–75.
William Walton, Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, 10 vols., Volume 8 Street Scenes; Groups in Parks, etc., Philadelphia: Barrie, 1900, OCLC187397912, 214–16.
Emilio Sala, tr. Delia Casadei, The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata, Cambridge Studies in Opera, New York: Cambridge University, 2013, ISBN9781107009011, p. 84.
Rae Beth Gordon, Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France, Farnham, Surrey / Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2009, ISBN9780754652434, p. 51, note 90.
Vallès, p. 338: "Si on ne dansait plus sur un volcan, on dansait sur des cendres. Les obus des deux sièges étaient tombés là-dedans" - "If one was no longer dancing on a volcano, one was dancing on ashes. The shells of the two sieges had fallen in there".
Patrick Offenstadt with Nicole Castais and Pierre Saurisse, Jean Béraud, 1849–1935: the Belle Epoque: a dream of times gone by, catalogue raisonné, Wildenstein Institute, Cologne: Taschen, 1999, ISBN9783822865132, p. 194.
cited in "Champs-Élysées (avenue des)", Paris mon village: le faubourg du Roule et ses environs, Apophtegme.com, p. 7 (pdf): "Tout y est doré du haut en bas, les arbres, les bancs, les vases, les fleurs. Imaginez une nature brillante, en or, argent et pierres précieuses."
Frédéric Loliée, adapted by Bryan O'Donnell, The Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire, New York: Brentano's / London: Long, 1910, OCLC587420, pp. 71–75.
William Walton, Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, 10 vols., Volume 8 Street Scenes; Groups in Parks, etc., Philadelphia: Barrie, 1900, OCLC187397912, 214–16.
Louis Aragon, "La Diane française": suivi de "En étrange pays dans mon pays lui-même", Paris: Seghers, 1946, repr. 1962, OCLC459406673, p. 93.
