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Talk:Antoine Galland

message: "Mystery still surrounds the origins of some of the most famous tales. For instance, there are no Arabic manuscripts of Aladdin and Ali Baba which pre-date Galland's translation, leading some scholars to conclude that Galland invented them himself and the Arabic versions are merely later renderings of his original French."
The other wiki entry on Aladdin explains this quite well:
"No medieval Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian storyteller from Aleppo. Galland's diary (March 25, 1709) records that he met the Maronite scholar, by name Youhenna Diab ("Hanna"), who had been brought from Aleppo to Paris by Paul Lucas, a celebrated French traveller. Galland's diary also tells that his translation of "Aladdin" was made in the winter of 1709–10. It was included in his volumes ix and x of the Nights, published in 1710.
John Payne, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp and Other Stories, (London 1901) gives details of Galland's encounter with the man he referred to as "Hanna" and the discovery in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris of two Arabic manuscripts containing Aladdin (with two more of the "interpolated" tales). One is a jumbled late 18th century Syrian version. The more interesting one, in a manuscript that belonged to the scholar M. Caussin de Perceval, is a copy of a manuscript made in Baghdad in 1703. It was purchased by the Bibliothèque Nationale at the end of the nineteenth century."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.249.60.132 (talk) 22:36, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Which scholars?
Talk:New Orleans in the American Civil War

message: The section on New Orleans under Union Army is unsourced and has a very Lost Cause bias. I have read many sources that counteract this portrayal and will rewrite adding citations from near contemporary sources. I will also clean up and put citations in sfnp format. Boo Boo (talk) 19:24, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Lost Cause Bias

message: A reader has called to my attention a possible inaccuracy in this article, which presently states that Mumford tore down the flag over City Hall, when it was actually the flag over the US Mint, according to the reader.  This is in the section on "New Orleans under the Union army".  Do any of you know of the accuracy of this statement? Nolabob (talk) 16:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: New Orleans was a Confederate city for just about a year. It was blockaded and so did not function as a port well before it fell. Frankly, New Orleans had little impact on the ACW. It provided one general officer who has an article. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 13:46, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: NOLA had minimal impact on the War
Talk:Amédée de Noé

message: Bonjour !
Je vous suggère d'ajouter sur la page consacrée à Cham le lien externe suivant :
http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/fo/visite?srv=mlo¶mAction=actionChangePage&numPageOeuvre=1&typeAffichage=true&sens=&colonne=0
Il s'agit de 426 caricatures de Cham mises en ligne sur Internet par le Département des Arts Graphiques du Musée du Louvre.
Cordialement.
Basilou  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.231.224.180 (talk) 09:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lien externe proposé
Talk:Thoinot Arbeau

message: Cette page a certainement besoin de plus d’informations sur cette personne et d’autres modifications Merci d'avoir écouté et prenez soin de vous. Wikipedia a besoin de moins de paresse.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.89.161.72 (talk) 01:51, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Where is this "stray 'i'"? Keep in mind that, in the (French, Italian, and Latin) orthography of the period, J is merely an ornamental variant of I.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 16:48, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
Talk:Jean-Georges Noverre

message: Noverre never worked in Marseille. This is an old mistake in Noverre's biographies that was caused by a misunderstanding of a statement in one of Noverre's letters.--Suessmayr (talk) 21:32, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Marseille

message: His daughter, Victoire Jenamy, is the reason Mozart's piano concerto No.9 is named "Jenamy".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1205:34C2:A3D0:CDFD:9599:96E9:3F0 (talk) 11:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jenamy 

message: A very interesting and important article, but that could use a bit of work I can't do.
I'm in the process of tweaking French spelling and a couple of items of general knowledge, but without access to the primary sources, there are things I don't want to meddle with.
The Early life and career section needs to be tweaked for a more encyclopedic style, again by someone better acquainted with the subject.
Quotations from primary sources need to be proofread.
References to primary sources need to be given according to WP style.
Cheers,
Awien (talk) 13:14, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested improvements
Talk:Charles Estienne

message: Review (HSCI 3013): Nice work on creating an article with some really relevant and interesting research about your topic of research! Overall I think this is a great start to your project although there are a few suggestions I have that may or may not be able to aid in improving your article. Although you have a lot of good info, I think it might be helpful if you organized the information a little bit more. Having some headings or format to your information might make it easier on the reader to find in particular what they are looking for as well as add emphasis to certain sections or headings which are vital that a reader must know about your subject matter. The last suggestion I have is maybe adding a couple more pictures or something other than text to help the "wow" factor of your article a bit. Although the most important thing is obviously getting the information correct, having some kind of aesthetic factor to your page might improve it a bit. Great work!
Kevinzehnder (talk) 21:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Practical Action

message: I wanted to check on the timeline in the history section. In the book Small is Possible, George McRobie (one of the Practical Action founders) states they had already formed the Intermediate Technology Development Group (the Practical Action forerunner) before the article was published in the Observer. According to McRobie, the fee Schumacher received for the article was the group's first "donation." EstellaGr8 (talk) 19:08, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Timeline
Talk:Claude Mollet

message: André Mollet was not the only familymember who helped him in his effort to create a dynasty of (garden) architects. Claude Mollet 'used' his eldest son Pierre Mollet, who lived outside Paris under the pseudnym Pierre Monjoie (Monjoye). Pierre was put to work by Claude Mollet at the development of the gardens of the palace in Holland, Honselersdijk. The idea of builging this palace came form the pricess douariere of Orange Nassau, Louise de Coligny. She ordered her son Frederic Hendrik of Orange Nassau to buy the necessary grounds in 1610. After the conclusion of the buy in 1612, Louise cam back to Holland in 1613. She intruduced the son of Claude Mollet as Francois Mollet, in order to keep the wife of Pierre, Radegonde LeMercier save in the city of Liege, where she was hiding for the French inquisition, because the name LeMercier was known as a Hugenot name. 159.180.28.62 (talk) 22:23, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claude Mollet
Talk:Trish Deseine

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.chocolatebytrish.com/about-trish. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  January (talk) 20:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Bugman (comics)

message: Is this the same Bugman who appeared in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Michaelangelo meets the Bugman"?  If so, that certainly bares mentioning as Michaelangelo claimed that his inclusion was based on fan request.  
Czar Baldy Bald IV 23:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Turtles
Talk:Émile Verhaeren

message: “Dutch was not taught at school at that time”. The fact is that, in the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th in Belgium, secondary school and university were only accessed by the middle classes and above, and only in French. Of course, in Flanders (in the broad sense, Dutch speaking part of Belgium), for the working class and the peasants, there was primary school in Dutch, not French. --Dominique Meeùs (talk) 20:51, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch and the school 

message: and get a non-derogatory synonym for "frenchified".
100.15.138.239 (talk) 23:01, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  find a thesaurus
Talk:Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

message: This page must be updated. 
Monsieur Steve.
Safest [update] : translate the 2020’ article from fr./Wiki/Hector_de_Saint-Denys_Garneau [?]  —Monsieur Steve / 28 april 2021.
One worst exemple:
“ According to the Quebec poet John Glassco (who translated Garneau's Journal into English) [Note 9] = John Glassco, Introduction to Complete Poems of Saint-Denys Garneau (Oberon, 1975), 5-17. ” 
The OPINION of Glassco is, the say the least, very PROBLEMATIC. Even was 60 YEARS AGO! 
PAR AILLEURS: its Introduction was to be published in the 1962 shortened 139 p. "Journal" version (Toronto, McClelland and Stewart) of the original 1954’ french edition - wich was 270 p. in that OL’ TIME (it’s 614 p. today—things did evolves) -, but Glassco preferred an introduction by Gilles Marcotte, isn't it remarkable?
There is no pages number for the (already problematic) quotations in this article. Why? Monsieursven (talk) 20:56, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROBLEM EXEMPLE NO. 2
Talk:Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

message: "The court decided that the son of Queneau and the Gallimard editions possessed an exclusive and moral right on this poem, thus outlawing any publication of it on the Internet and possibility for the reader to play Queneau's interactive game of poem construction."  The court's decision does not, as the grammar of this sentence implies, outlaw any "possibility for the reader to play Queneau's interactive game of poem construction".  The reader can still play the game if s/he has a copy of the book, and there's nothing to stop computer-literate readers writing an application that will enable them to play with the poem on their own computers.  I sympathise with the sentiment here, but the law is the law [ THE LAW IS ALWAYS STUPID!!! ].  More to the point, wikipedia is supposed to be neutral and this sentence expresses a definite POV on someone's part.  I will edit it accordingly. Lexo (talk) 09:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I don't know what it's called, but I assume this means a book of many drawn heads, bodies, legs, which can be mixed and matched by combination of the parallel 1/3-height pages on which the body parts are distributed. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 21:51, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heads-bodies-and-legs book
Template talk:Northrop aircraft

message: I've removed the TR-3A Black Manta from the template. I don't think it's appropriate to list aircraft that are only "rumored" to have been built by a company. Articles on rumored aircraft are fine as loong as they have verifiable sources, and that is the place for any report on who might have made it. - BillCJ 07:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: TR-3A Black Manta
Talk:Lais of Marie de France

message: — Assignment last updated by Medusasgarden (talk) 01:27, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: The Middle Ages

message: — Assignment last updated by Lkindle9 (talk) 21:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: The Middle Ages
Talk:Illuminations (poetry collection)

message: Several statements in this article, in particular in the "Influence and legacy" section, are about Arthur Rimbaud in general, not specifically about Illuminations.--Abolibibelot (talk) 10:16, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statements about Arthur Rimbaud in general, not "Illuminations" specifically
Talk:L'affiche rouge

message: Beside translation problems, this entry suffers from the same NPOV problem than the Affiche Rouge entry (see Talk:Affiche Rouge). Tazmaniacs 15:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV & clean-up 
Talk:Le Bateau ivre

message: ==Untitled--
i would get read of the last line, or at least move it to somewhere in the middle. thet's no way to conclude - 
Vladimir Nabokov translated it in Russian in 1928, but Théodore de Banville disliked the poem.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.235.124.220 (talk) 11:04, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Erec and Enide

message: I have access to only so many sources that discuss the themes of Erec and Enide in an unbiased manner (and, thus, should be cited). I've found that the "Introduction" section of a translation of the poem is useful, but I was wondering if anyone has any other sources or places to look for sources. AbbyShant (talk) 06:33, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: More Diverse Sources on Themes

message: I put lots of subheadings under the "Themes/Motifs" section, and most of the subjects turned out not to be as long as I thought they would. Thoughts on whether or not they should be kept? AbbyShant (talk) 06:33, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Subheadings in Themes/Motifs

message: The plot section of this entry could use a little more work. As of now it is unfinished but I think a good synopsis could be constructed in about 500 words.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seankhoury (talk • contribs) 18:21, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot
Talk:Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

message: Therefore, to define Lancelot's behavior as representative of that within the tradition of "courtly love" becomes circular.
In the above sentence, what becomes circular? Is something missing? -84user (talk) 12:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  what becomes circular 

message: Over the next few days, this page will be undergoing revisions. If you have any questions, contact redcknight.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timothyjknapp (talk • contribs) 15:23, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine. Just don't forget about the BRD cycle. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:12, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits

message: I can/will bold edits if req'd. Allen750 (talk) 08:30, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated/Fixed/Completed "Story" section 

message: It's actually not known where Chrétien's work ends and Godefroi's starts. In his 1992 edition, Charles Mela says 'perhaps from line 6147'the original untranslated is peut-être à partir du v. 6147. Le chevalier de la charrette, Lettres Gothiques, Livre de Poche, 1992, page 472, which corresponds with what we've written, but it's merely a suggestion, not a fact. The assumption is Chrétien disapproved of the subject matter, so wanted the story to end with Lancelot in prison, so Godefroi was drafted in to give it a happier ending. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:25, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I take that back, it's mentioned by Godefroi in the epilogue. Not the line number, but the event in the story. Renard Migrant (talk) 10:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  In a continuation
Talk:Girart de Roussillon

message: There are two articles on the same person.  The other one is on Gerhard II of Roussillon.  They should be combined into a single article.47.187.227.173 (talk) 12:33, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Apologies if the issue has already been resolved, but since the preceding comment isn't even a month old, I'd have to ask which article you're referring to? The only Gerhard II of Roussillon that comes up when I put that name in the search bar is redirected to Girard II of Roussillon--who died in 1172, almost three hundred years after this articles Gérard II de Roussillon. 147.226.232.163 (talk) 23:58, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Boecis

message: I am deleting the reference to the poem being the second-oldest piece of romance to survive. Other texts (e.g., Séquence de sainte Eulalie, the "romance" words in the Pariser Gespräche, &c) are older.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.108.71.23 (talk) 21:51, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the second oldest piece of romance
Talk:History of Political Philosophy

message: Someone should take the time to breakdown the chapters and the scholars presenting each philosopher, as well as explain the books significance to 'Straussians'. --Mikerussell 15:57, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Fabrice Neaud

message: *Interview on du9
*Interview on Arte
*Angoulême 2010 Expo Angoulême 2010 Expo 2
*Conference at Ecole des Beaux-arts de Lyon: ref 1 2 video
--KrebMarkt 17:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More coverage 
Talk:Warp (comics)

message: In the description of the character's appearance in the television show Smallvilee, the following sentence appears:
"In this episode, Emil didn't had the ability to fly rather than his comic book incarnation."
It is both grammatically incorrect and unclear in meaning.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.139.75.233 (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing language in Smallville appearance
Talk:Georges Querelle

message: I was surprised when I didn't find Querelle de Brest listed under :Category:Novels by Jean Genet. Now that I see the title redirects to this article, I understand why. (You can't categorize Georges as a novel). Nevertheless, this is such an important novel, shouldn't it have its own article? Shouldn't the encyclopedia give precedence to the book rather than its protagonist? ---Sluzzelin talk 02:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main article 

message: The article claimed that homosexuality was illegal in France in the 1950s. This is false. What was illegal at the time was homosexual acts with minors (under 21), and other offenses dealing with minors and sex. I removed this claim until somebody can make things clearer. David.Monniaux (talk) 23:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illegality of homosexuality
Talk:Eva Gore-Booth

message: The source cited does apparently support the claim that "Life that is Love is God" is "a quote from the poet Sappho" – but where on earth is Sappho meant to have said this?  At best this is going to be an odd translation of whatever Sappho wrote, because Sappho was no monotheist, but the whole quote reads more like John the Evangelist than ancient Greek lyric.  Neither googling this, nor searching through my various editions of Sappho (the Loeb translation, Rayor's 2014 translation, Carson's If Not, Winter) is turning up any original Sapphic source for this quote – it seems much more likely to me that it was an original line of Gore-Booth's which she (mis)cited (either deliberately or accidentally) to Sappho. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 17:57, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Life that is Love is God"
Talk:Edith Artois

message: This was a British sitcom.  While it took place in France, I'm not sure this would really fall under the France WikiProject...   Thoughts? Tcxspears (talk) 20:06, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yep, that's nonsense isn't it? It really adds nothing to wiki project France. It's just a rather broad Britcom. Plingsby (talk) 11:55, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject France??
Talk:Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III

message: I have not added a page since  footnotes became the rule, How do I do them?
Source for Ranks:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/chbonesteel-03.htm
USS Pueblo 
http://www.usspueblo.org/v2f/repatriation/repatriation.html
Other info and neat photo (I can't do photos either):
http://www.nndb.com/people/113/000029026/
Paul, in Saudi 16:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Alan Shapley

message: He was a major on Dec 7, 1941 and you claim there was no Marine higher rank than that in the whole Pacific at the time? I find that hard to believe. Maybe at Pearl Harbor, but certainly not the whole Pacific.Rlevse 15:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it says he was the senior Marine onboard the Arizona, that makes much more sense. — Rlevse • Talk •  03:37, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ranking Marine
Talk:Allfather D'Aronique

message: I think it would be noteable to mention that the Allfather would have had the soldier -he- fell on (after descending from the plane, not the copter) tortured to death for the 'crime' of being fallen upon. I'd add it myself but the article is pretty spiffy already it, I can't figure out a smooth way to put it in. Lots42 (talk) 15:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merciless
Talk:Effects of marijuana

message: You probably want to merge anything here into the existing article, Health issues and the effects of cannabis. Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 16:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your article is here in the history. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 19:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Cannabis (drug)? I redirected it to Health issues and the effects of cannabis, seemed more appropriate. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 19:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The article is about health issues and effects of cannabis, both are covered, I disagree with it pointing to Cannabis (drug) because it is over inclusive to the title of this redirect. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 19:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Perhaps that name would be less ambiguous, I would support that. I have put it back to Health issues and the effects of cannabis since you don't feel strongly about this, and I believe it to better match the ex-content and title of this article. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 19:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Nyctalope

message: I edited out:
The Nyctalope is mentioned in passing in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea in Chapter 5, in which Aronnax notes, "...and even nyctalopes, whose faculty of seeing in the darkness multiplies their chances a hundredfold, would have had enough to do to gain the prize..."
Because 2.000 Leagues Under the Sea was written at least forty years before the first Nyctalope story, and because nyctalope is simply a term for animals that can see in the dark.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.103.3.244 (talk) 20:56, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Tampalakamam massacre

message: The citations were taken from strong PRO-LTTE sites.. And these sites are renowned for their bias..Please provide the original amnesty report.thanks--Iwazaki 16:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the primary source . Now that the information is rock solid I will work on this article next to make it better just like Mylanthanai massacre has been updated. I did not intervene in any of your massacre article creations infact I helped you with Pottuvil massacre because I do not  not follow other editors around. Following WP rules whether WP:RS or WP:NPOV cannot be selective all rules have to be followed including WP:AGF and WP:Stalk. Thanks.RaveenS 22:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need original sources