Tahourdin, Adrian (21 April 2006). „A Frenchman and a Geographer“. 5th paragraph. London: review is taken from the TLS. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 4 სექტემბერი 2011. ციტირების თარიღი: 9 December 2008. ციტატა: „"Le Clézio's family were originally from Morbihan on the west coast of Brittany. At the time of the Revolution, one of his ancestors, who had refused to enlist in the Revolutionary Army because they had insisted he cut his long hair, fled France with the intention of reaching India, but disembarked on Mauritius, and stayed there“
Bremner, Charles (9 October 2008). „Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio wins the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize“. Times Online. London. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 2011-06-16. ციტირების თარიღი: 2008-10-09. ციტატა: „Le Clézio, who was born in Nice and has lived in England, New Mexico and South Korea, said that he was touched by the honour. He mentioned his British father, a surgeon, and his childhood in Mauritius and Nigeria. "I was born of a mix, like many people currently in Europe," he said.“
Tahourdin, Adrian (21 April 2006). „A Frenchman and a geographer“. 5th paragraph. London: review is taken from the TLS. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 4 სექტემბერი 2011. ციტირების თარიღი: 9 December 2008. ციტატა: „"Le Clezio received the Academie Francaise's Grand Prix Paul Morand in 1980 for Desert, a novel that revealed a move towards a more expansive and lyrical style. The book has a dual narrative. The first, dated 1909–10, chronicles the tragic fate of a Tuareg clan fleeing across Morocco from their French and Spanish colonial oppressors ("les chrétiens")".“
Tahourdin, Adrian (21 April 2006). „A Frenchman and a Geographer“. 5th paragraph. London: review is taken from the TLS. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 4 სექტემბერი 2011. ციტირების თარიღი: 9 December 2008. ციტატა: „"Le Clézio's family were originally from Morbihan on the west coast of Brittany. At the time of the Revolution, one of his ancestors, who had refused to enlist in the Revolutionary Army because they had insisted he cut his long hair, fled France with the intention of reaching India, but disembarked on Mauritius, and stayed there“
Bremner, Charles (9 October 2008). „Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio wins the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize“. Times Online. London. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 2011-06-16. ციტირების თარიღი: 2008-10-09. ციტატა: „Le Clézio, who was born in Nice and has lived in England, New Mexico and South Korea, said that he was touched by the honour. He mentioned his British father, a surgeon, and his childhood in Mauritius and Nigeria. "I was born of a mix, like many people currently in Europe," he said.“
Tahourdin, Adrian (21 April 2006). „A Frenchman and a geographer“. 5th paragraph. London: review is taken from the TLS. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 4 სექტემბერი 2011. ციტირების თარიღი: 9 December 2008. ციტატა: „"Le Clezio received the Academie Francaise's Grand Prix Paul Morand in 1980 for Desert, a novel that revealed a move towards a more expansive and lyrical style. The book has a dual narrative. The first, dated 1909–10, chronicles the tragic fate of a Tuareg clan fleeing across Morocco from their French and Spanish colonial oppressors ("les chrétiens")".“
