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Talk:Grisette (person)

message: About the best known association of grisette in English is that they watched the guillotine enthusiatically during the Terror. Where does this come from - Dickens, Carlyle? It should be added. Johnbod (talk) 01:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grisettes at the scaffold 

message: Qute from article : They formed relationships with artists and poets more committed than prostitution but less so than a mistress ('Groupie' would be an approximate modern equivalent.) End quote. Was this not actually comparable to a modern relationship? Nowadays, a woman can have a relationship to a man withouth being married to him, and without being a groupie or a prostitute: an independent, love relationship on equeal terms. Is this not a more suitable modern equivalent? The grisettes were finacially independent, not prostitutes, and what makes them groupies? The comparission above seem to be somewhat lacking in NPOV. It would be good to justify the comparision here. --85.226.47.222 (talk) 11:53, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that "groupie" is anachronistic. It was left over from the first version of the article before I expanded it. It was from early editing days on Wikipedia, and I thought you had to leave what was originally there as you expanded it. I've now removed it.  But the relationships were not on equal terms, the Bohemian grisettes were financially dependent on the artists to whom they were attached to supplement their meagre income as seamstresses, artists' models etc. and more often than not, they were not in exclusive relationships. Also, the definition is bound to be "old-fashioned". The word is not used today to describe women in relationships of this kind. The grisette was very much a product of a particular time and cultural perception. Voceditenore (talk) 07:41, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But isn't it rather an assumption to asume that they had a relationship with the artists to supplement their meagre income? The fact that they had sex with several men does not make them prostitutes. It is, after all, fully possible that these women had sexual relationships with several men simply for their own sexual plesure, even if it was not a question of exlusive love relationships. Women, just as well as men, can enjoy to have many sexual partners. My point is: in those days it was the opinion, that a woman was a prostitute when she had sex with a man she was not a married to - and especially if she had sex with several men. They need not have accepted money to be considered prostitutes according to the moral of the day. But they were in fact only prostitutes if they accepted money. Did they? Is this confirmed? That is the important question. --85.226.41.106 (talk) 20:50, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old-fashioned definions 

message: * http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.com/2009/02/grisettes-and-lorettes.html
-- Softlavender (talk) 00:39, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  An interesting source
Talk:Bishops' Conference of France

message: Like many other episcopal conferences, the CEF has been affected by a large bureaucracy that promotes institutional dissent towards the various magisterial directives of the Holy See. These problems should perhaps be mentioned in the article, along with the corresponding controversies concerning openly dissident prelates such as Jacques Gaillot. ADM (talk) 07:25, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Institutional dissent
Talk:Siege of Naxos (499 BC)

message: I changed the size of the Persian army from 50,000 men to a range of 20,000-30,000. Seeing as how this was a purely maritime campaign with 200 ships. A force of 50,000 would call for an unfeasbile average of 250 combatants per ship. While the average as noted by Herodotus and contemporary historians are between 100-150 per ship.--Arsenous Commodore 18:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size of Persian Army
Talk:Méhariste

message: While not accepted by most dictionaries, the word "camelry" is often used for camel-mounted troops in wargaming and informal military history contexts. Mayhap it could be considered an English equivalent of méharistes? It may be noted that the word occurs in a number of Wikipedia articles already. Orcoteuthis 13:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Reinstating the proposal since the article now has had a rework. Feedback welcome. Chicbyaccident (talk) 11:02, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: "Camelry"

message: *Oppose. Camel cavalry covers a broad category of mounted warriors/soldiers over a period of about two thousand years. Méhariste is concerned with a specific corps of French desert troops policing the Sahara during a limited time frame (1902-1962). Cross-references are certainly warranted but not a full merger. Buistr (talk) 21:23, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Reinstating the proposal since the article now has had a rework. Feedback welcome. Chicbyaccident (talk) 11:02, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to merge with Camel cavalry article
Talk:Nouvelle Action Royaliste

message: This is in the cat far right but I do not why because I can find no evidence the article itself contradicts this .安東尼 TALKies 23:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely not. This cat was added by a wikiwarrior who claims that all monarchist organisations - even the NAR, just a monarchist think-tank with centrist orientation in real politics - should be considered a priori as far-right. i think User:tazmaniacs should find a more suitable place for pushing his/her POV.Miacek (talk) 11:20, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for clearing this up, some more article expansion with references would be good!--安東尼 TALK 圣诞快乐 19:04, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Far-right??
Talk:Madelenian

message: From the research I've done the Madelenian appears to just be either an alternate form or misspelling of the Magdalenian. The only references to it are from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica this page is entirely lifted from and other sources talking about the same thing (i.e. Prehistoric culture from La Madeleine cave) instead talk about the Magdalenian. Thus it would appear they're actually the same and should be merged. Unless objections are raised and evidence presented the Madelenian and Magdalenian are discrete entities I shall carry out this merger in one month on the 16/12/2011  --Reprieve (talk) 15:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger
Talk:École Jeannine Manuel

message: There's another article on the same school, abbreviated EABJM.  Since the EABJM and above articles both talk about the same school, shouldn't they be merged? Dwainberg (talk) 03:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: This article was previously classed as a stub. I provided information concerning the school's history, its administrative structure, its pedagogical approach and provided references to news articles and other outside links.
All of this work was deleted without cause by the user Viewmontviking. It was deemed "promotion drival" (spelling mistake kept in its original form).
This is contrary to the spirit of Wikipedia and leaves no room whatsoever for discussion. If Viewmontviking wishes to edit the article, he or she should do it section by section and provide justification for any deletion of content as prescribed by Wikipedia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarahsurama (talk • contribs) 15:01, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: As you are the one with the COI, the onus is on you to get consensus for your changes. In addition if you are being Paid to work on this article you must disclose that on your User page. --VVikingTalkEdits 15:21, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

text: I am at the 3 reverts and will not be crossing that. I disagree with the information that is being added by User:Sarahsurma, the information does not conform to Wikipedia's strong stance against promotional editing. I will wait until other editors have commented.--VVikingTalkEdits 15:32, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfair deletion by Viewmont Viking
Talk:Collège Stanislas de Paris

message: I have been informed that my grandniece was admitted to Collège Stanislas de Paris as a resident of one of twenty-four dormitory rooms only recently made available to female students.  This is a very small number considering the size of the school, but it does make the article's statement about there being no housing available to women incorrect.  Confirmation of this change should be done by someone who knows the French language.
--Thumbdropper (talk) 00:07, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Communauté de communes

message: It appears from this entry that no one has dared attempt a translation of Communautés in the context of these Communautés de communes.   On the other hand, to the average English speaker, the word Communauté doesn't mean too much.   It sort of means community, but that is very far from being a precise synonym.   And in any case, community is a politically charged word which carries different bits of emotional baggage in different parts of the Anglosphere.   (We have the same issue with 'commune' which - quite misleadingly - screams 'communist' for several generations of red-neck, but that's from another discussion.)
I don't know the answer on translating this word.   You can  maybe substitute words like grouping or association for community if (1) you INSIST on attempting a translation and (2) you provide enough context.   But it's less than a total solution.
Any ideas?   Regards   Charles01 (talk) 08:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation of Communautés de communes 
Talk:Collège des Écossais, Montpellier

message: A sentence without reference has been added on 12 September 2015 in the Wikiarticle Patrick Geddes and in the one about Château d’Assas in Montpellier, asserting that 1°/ Patrick Geddes bought it “at the beginning of the 1920s” and 2°/ that PG founded the Collège des Écossais in Montpellier “in 1890”.
It would be very important to know where does that come from.
Important as regards to the Collège which, up to now, PG is supposed to have founded when coming back from India, in 1924. (Even if he undoubtedly had it in mind much before, probably during his very first stay in France when he was studying in Paris and Roscoff.)
As regards to the château d’Assas, maybe it would help to understand why there is not a trace left there of any PG’s intervention, either in the fields of city planning, education, community building, gardening or botany…
So, thanks a lot to anybody who can indicate some references about these facts and dates.
latelier.mb
Paris, 19_III_16  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Latelier.mb (talk • contribs) 15:58, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Château d’Assas
Talk:Royal de Luxe

message: The street theater company is cool and Fantasic.!Can someone help to translate more from French language?--MagicDesigner 13:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fantasic! 

message: *Les Machines de l'Île de Nantes
*, Portfolio par Susana Paiva à Londres 2006
*The Sultan’s Elephant, L'Éléphant du Sultan à Londres au printemps 2006
*La visite du Sultan des Indes, Mairie de Nantes
*Présentation et historique de Royal de Luxe, mairie de Nantes
*Photos de la visite du Sultan des Indes à Amiens, Vincent Caplier 
*articles, photos et liens à propos de Royal de Luxe
*documents et informations sur les spectacles de Royal De Luxe fréquemment mis à jour par Raphaël smarracom, 
*vidéos & photos de la visite du Sultan des Indes à Amiens, François Hanat
*Photos de la visite du Sultan des Indes à Anvers, Bart Braem
*Photos de la visite du Sultan des Indes à Calais, Kris Blomme
*Photos de la visite du Sultan des Indes au Havre
*La visite du Sultan des Indes au Havre. Vidéos, images en animation flash
*La Machine Créateurs et constructeurs de décors monumentaux, machines de ville, objets en mouvement, machineries de spectacles et spectacles…
*Festival internacional de teatro, La petite géante au Chili en janvier 2007
*Beaucoup des photos, info, links du royal Royal de Luxe (international), KrieBeL.
>> Cbdorsett 04:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voir également 

message: wot is it realy about though?
like the history on the company...how many shows they've done or regualr touring ect..
do they research into wot plays to focus on or write their own?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.112.133.115 (talk) 12:38, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  royal de luxe 

message: Nothing in here about the berlin reunion street theatre piece that started 3-october-2009?
Rmd1023 (talk) 17:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  berlin reunion 

message: Why do the puppets have Asian features?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.121.30.111 (talk) 20:07, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asian Features 

message: Is this the group that's been in a recent series of commecials for the Mayflower moving company? Bizzybody (talk) 06:47, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayflower commercials?
Talk:Lewis Haines Wentz

message: Some one deleted the photo of Wentz.
Please restore it. jcmcapital  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcmcapital (talk • contribs) 00:27, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Reformed Church of France

message: The first section of this article is a translation from the French language Wiki version, I will get around to translating the rest of the article in the next week or so. I have followed the French version as closely as possible. Will be doing more French language translations in the next few weeks. Meshsa 15:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Belated thanks for starting this article, Meshsa. As an Australian descendent of Huguenot refugees, it is wonderful to learn about my mother church.  Scatcat2009 (talk) 23:56, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Started translation 

message: Finally got around to finishing this one, and have started putting in some internal links aswell.
All the articles I have translated for WikiProkect Calvinism are listed on the Project page under translation. Meshsa 17:41, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Finished Translation

message: I added the logo of the Reformed Church in France. I hope that I have managed to comply with Fair Use guidlines, if I haven't I would welcome any pointers from more experienced users.--Meshsa 12:47, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Logo 

message: De facto toleration of the Reformed in France began again earlier than the article states - at some point in the reign of Louis XVI, thus before the Revolution.  Thus, that king had at least one Protestant cabinet minister, the finance minister Necker.--71.185.89.143 (talk) 21:36, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toleration 

message: I think a section should be added on this denomination's presence in other nations outside France, such as Switzerland, Belgium, and South Africa (possibly the Netherlands as well) is in order. --Katangais (talk) 03:07, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Presence
Talk:Pan bagnat

message: Thanks for the article.  But I don't understand what "The sandwich is composed of a circle formed white bread around the classic Salade Niçoise" means.  If it's bread served alongside a salad, it can't be a sandwich. Maikel 20:27, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty sure that was a mistranslation (or automatic translation) from the French article. I've updated/corrected it to reflect the reality - which is that it's usually made from pain de campagne, to boot (not usually white bread), and is indeed a sandwich. For the info of anyone else reading this in the future: I live in Nice, speak some Niçard, and used local recipes for the information added. --fraise (talk) 12:54, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Quoi?
Category talk:People educated at Silverdale School, Sheffield

message: Michael Vaughan's wife Nichola also attended Silverdale School. But as she is not a celebrity, is it okay if I include her name among the alumni of Silverdale School?
:You can't add her to the category unfortunately as she doesn't have an article. She has some position at the NHS - google gives it. Maybe she is notable as MV's wife. I had a look for other notable alumni but couldn't find any - any help appreciated. roundhouse 04:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled
Talk:Apostolic Vicariate of Iles Saint Pierre and Miquelon

message: Well, I see that La Rochelle is traditionally a haven whence French sailors set out, but is there a specific reason that La Rochelle was chosen? Also, while I see that this erstwhile particular church may not be large enough to have its own bishop, still it is rather far away from the Continent and not even a part of France proper in the sense that, say, Gouadeloupe, La Réunion or now Mayotte are. After all, it could also simply have been given in personal union to a French diocesan bishop...--2001:A61:260C:C01:ECDB:A631:239D:BAB8 (talk) 14:20, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why to La Rochelle, precisely?
Talk:Union Nationale des Étudiants de France

message: The article states that they are held once every two years... it's actually three per year, and four per election year (every two years, that is.)
Just wanted to clarify.
--82.225.180.154 (talk) 13:13, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: National Conferences
Talk:Bid rigging

message: This article is very lacking and hasn't been actively attended to. I am uploading a far better version, though it could use some more fleshing out in the examples section. 
ColinHarkins1 (talk) 23:02, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Update

message: The dangō content below was removed from the dango article, since it didn't fit in with the rest of the article about a Japanese food. Feel free to merge whatever you can to this article. Or to create a new article called "Dangō" if you think it deserves an article on its own (which I doubt). Content:
  (bid rigging) or prearranged business agreement in which contractors privately form an agreement in advance on bid prices, etc. is still a habitual practice of the Japanese construction industry, although it is both a violation of Japanese criminal law and the Japan Anti-Monopoly Law. In 2006 alone, the governors of Wakayama and Miyazaki Prefectures, and former governor of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan were all nabbed or forced to resign due to nefarious connections to the Japanese construction industry involving "kansei dango" or "bid rigging instigated by government agencies." An excellent inside view of this stubbornly resilient and age-old business custom in Japan has been written by a Japanese and is located on the Internet .
—Tokek 03:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dangō

message: Should this article be renamed to Bid-rigging with a hyphen? ~ Rollo44 00:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  rename
Talk:Indignité nationale

message: Dégradation nationale is a translation of the French article on the dégradation nationale, which appears to have since been merged with fr:Indignité nationale. I suggest that we follow the style of the parent article and do likewise, especially since this article is a stub and is inseparable from the other topic. Nicknimh (talk) 00:25, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Thanks for catching this. Nicknimh (talk) 13:02, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: merge [[Dégradation nationale]] into this article 

message: , It looks like you handled the merge of  to Indignité nationale (diff); thanks for that. But in the aftermath, you created a double redirect from  to the page  (itself a redirect page). Can you please sort this out?  Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 08:28, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Thanks for catching this. Nicknimh (talk) 13:02, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong destination for redirect
Talk:Château Phélan Ségur

message: Propose that the article be moved per most sources I can find, not least the château's own site's spelling and French WP.
Anyone have strong feelings and good reason why not? MURGH disc. 18:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I assume this is pretty uncontroversial, so I'll put it up for an admin to complete the move at their leisure. MURGH disc. 20:44, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And the move was swiftly done. Thanks. MURGH disc. 23:29, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move
Talk:Théâtre du Soleil

message: Whilst this article contains much useful information it is clearly un-encyclopedic.
As an undergraduate performing arts student, I understand this; baring in mind one of my main areas of research is into Jacques Lecoq, his ideas and the people influenced by him. However, I feel that the "uninitiated" there is too much ambiguious and/or technical language.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sebbi (talk • contribs) 23:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete Rewrite
Talk:13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment

message: I've done a bit of work integrating information from the French Wiki and doing some editing and tidying up, so lots of little edit in a row! Grible (talk) 16:41, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Tidy up

message: I have moved the article in accordings with the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units) and clean it up a little. Carl Logan 17:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move and Clean up
Talk:A86 autoroute

message: This claim was introduced by revision 435341363 from 20 June 2011. I've removed this claim with revision 937634391 on 26 January 2020.
Counterexample: the Yamate Tunnel, which carries the Central Circular Route (C2) of the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo and is  long.
While motorways (in Europe) and expressways (in Japan) aren't technically the same thing, they both refer to high speed controlled access roads. The speed limits on both tunnels are also similar (the Yamate Tunnel has a speed limit of  while the A86 tunnel has a speed limit of )
Pjztam (talk) 07:13, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed claim that A86 contains the world's longest urban motorway tunnel
Talk:Berrichon dialect

message: Is 'ieux' a misprint for 'lieux'? According to the article, "(t)he suffix -eur becomes -eux", so leurs should be leux.  And does leur also become leux? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:49, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does 'leurs' become 'ieux'? 

message: The vowel change from homme to houmme, the use of the 1st person plural verb form with the first person singular pronoun, similar to the language of La Sagouine.  Are these just common older forms?  Is there a historical connection? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:53, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  looks a bit like Acadian
Talk:China national baseball team

message: The preview image for this article is very disturbing and unrelated to the Chinese national baseball team. It appears to show someone cutting into flesh - either a surgery or autopsy or butchering an animal, not sure what. I do not know what it is, but it is not something I want to see when casually browsing wikipedia. I would change it myself, but I do not know how to. Thanks! (- random passerby, not a wikipedian)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.220.10.48 (talk) 07:59, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled