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Reference for certain categorical limits

I would like to know if there is a special name for the following concept, papers that feature something similar or a general reference. Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category and $\mathcal{D}$ a subcategory ...
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Jon Beck's untitled manuscript containing the "tripleability theorem" (i.e. the monadicity theorem)

Many papers refer to an untitled manuscript of Jon Beck (Cornell, 1966) for the origin of the monadicity theorem (originally called a "tripleability theorem"). An early proof is in Manes's ...
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Yves Diers's thesis ("Catégories localisables")

I am looking for a copy of Yves Diers's 1977 thesis Catégories localisables, which is the original reference for "multi-" category theory, such as multi-adjoints, multi-colimits, and so on. ...
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Michel Thiébaud's thesis ("Self-Dual Structure-Semantics and Algebraic Categories")

I am looking for a copy of Michel Thiébaud's 1971 thesis Self-Dual Structure-Semantics and Algebraic Categories, which appears to be an early reference for the relationship between the Kleisli ...
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Locating the typed version of Hoàng Xuân Sính's thesis on Gr-categories

Hoàng Xuân Sính was a vietnamese student of Grothendieck who defended her thesis on Gr-categories (now called weak 2-groups). The thesis, handwritten and in French, can be found at https://pnp....
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