(en) Damien Tricoire, The Colonial Dream: Imperial Knowledge and the French-Malagasy Encounters in the Age of Enlightenment, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, (ISBN978-3-11-071535-4, lire en ligne)
(en) Samuel Pasfield Oliver, Madagascar: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island and Its Former Dependencies, Macmillan, (lire en ligne)