Talk:Jacques Vergès

message: Vergès wasn't muslim, was he, really ? where does that come from ? There was a mass when he died, in a catholic church 90.1.25.230 (talk) 14:29, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Vergès

message: The article says:
:"After the war, while his twin brother Paul was imprisoned for murdering a political rival to their father"
This most surely alludes to the death of Alexis de Villeneuve, an event nowadays mostly forgotten outside of Reunion Island. Villeneuve was killed by a bullet during a political meeting.
Google for his name, you'll find plenty of articles discussing who was involved and what truly happened. It seems to me that the opinions in the articles on local Web sites regarding this death favor one theory or the other depending on the writer's political choices.  A little note: Paul Vergès is best known for being the current president of Reunion Island's Regional Council.
Now something that's most probably inaccurate:
:"He joined the Reunionese Communist Party.[citation needed] In 1942, with his father's encouragement"
As far as I understand, the Reunionese Communist Party (PCR) was founded in 1959 by Raymond Vergès (Jacques' father), making local Communists autonomous from the French Communist Party (PCF). So Jacques could not be a member of this nonexistent organization in 1942. Maybe what is meant is that he was a member of some Reunionese section of the PCF... and then this again sounds dubious since at the time Reunion was run by Vichy France, which outlawed the PCF. So maybe he was a member of a clandestine organization, but then this would have to be researched.
David.Monniaux (talk) 06:56, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vergès' youth 

message: "Throughout his career as an attorney, Vergès has primarily taken political cases,"
Jacques Vergès is best known for taking up political cases. However, you do not make a living out of these cases, and as far as I know Vergès made a living as a lawyer, including business cases. I would therefore suspect the claim is inaccurate. David.Monniaux (talk) 07:08, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Another dubious and uncited claim

message: Does anyone have the citation for Vergès' autobiography?  The web seems to be letting me down on this.  It would be good to include in the reference list, and also next to the discussion of the translation of "Luminous/Brilliant Bastard".  Is the book published only in French, or has it been translated as well? LotLE×talk 18:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for autobiography 

message: This apparently informative sentence was removed today:
He also left the French Communist Party following their political move towards the Fourth Republic.
If we think the fact is untrue, we definitely should not keep it.  But if merely in need of better citation, I think it should stay, and we should find a reference.  Or am I missing some other meaning in the edit (there was no meaningful edit comment to it). LotLE×talk 19:40, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leaving CPF 

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