Talk:Jean-Victor Poncelet

message: Poncelet's biography says that he has been capturedd at the battle of Battle of Smolensk (1812).Pierre de Lyon 19:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: The sentence "born in a poor family in Metz" is not true.  His biographer Isidore Didion says  that his father was a lawyer at the Metz Parlement, a rather high position. Actually he let us understand that he was a "natural" child of this rich person. Poncelet was educated in a poor family in Saint-Avold.  I need the help of a historian to decode the puritan style of his biographer.  Let me translate what Didion writes:
* Jean-Victor Poncelet is born in Metz on July 1, 1788, his father Claude Poncelet, a lawyer at the Metz Parlement, has, for reasons that are not connected with this story, to send him, very young, to Saint-Avold, where he was set in the excellent family Olier etc. 
Pierre de Lyon 20:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have access to that particular source (though I have difficulty reading it, as I only can read French at an elementary level). In my rewrite, I hope I've fixed it. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 21:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poncelet's father was not poor 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The article is quite interesting. I've listed some work to be done from a first read. Some of the points are trivial, others are more crucial and need attention and discussion. I'll wait to see what you think before I do anymore. This guy has done much more than Lemoine, so more work will be needed to achieve comprehensiveness.
*In the infobox there is a problem with : "Doctoral students : École d’Application of Metz, University of Paris, École Polytechnique"
*In the infobox, "Known for : Traité des propriétés projectives des figures (1822), Industrial Mechanics (1829)" French and English titles are mixed. BTW, has "Industrial Mechanics" been translated in English?
*"(1862/64) Applications d'analyse et de géométrie" Why are there two dates? Also, the dates should be formated consistently (see "1822–1848" for example)
*"Taton, Rene" Is an accent missing?
*"In 1848, Lemoine became commandant of his alma mater" should that be Poncelet? :)
*"Faculté des Sciences" should have a wikilink
**Where's the article on that? Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 23:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: *http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/POL_PRE/PONCELET_JEAN_VICTOR_1788_1867_.html
*http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9890(193812)45%3A10%3C677%3AAEPOTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
*http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Poncelet.html
*http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/469548/Jean-Victor-Poncelet
*  Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages du général J. V. Poncelet, par M. le général Didion. in Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz 1870 (50e année / 1868-1869; 2e série) pp. 101-159. Pierre de Lyon (talk) 17:07, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of websites with information about the guy (please add stuff) 

message: Here what is in Didion on P. 166:
*During the night of the 18th November 1812, the members of the excellent troops who have not followed the Marshall (Ney) had no hope to escape the Russian army; they were cut, they have to find an arrangement, and after long talks they capitulate and were declared prisoners.
He was then interrogated by General Prince Mideradovich.
Pierre de Lyon (talk) 19:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How he was prisoner 

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