Talk:Committee of Public Safety

message: I believe that the following has no bearing in reality, so I cut it from the article. Am I missing something?
:The four policies of the Committee of Public Safety were:
:Married men will make weapons, transport military supplies, and prepare food.
:Young men will fight.
:Children will make old cloth into lint.
:Women will forget the futile tasks.
-- Jmabel | Talk 06:36, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
These "policies" were actually part of the Levée en masse, a law put into effect by the Committee of Public Safety in 1794.
-Moonbeast 22:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That makes sense. It made no sense in the context where it was placed in the article a year ago. We have some OK, not great, material at Levée en masse#The_French_Revolutionary_Wars. Is this quotation accurate and citable? If so, it should probably be added there. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: Can we stick with one calendar throughout the article?  Either the Republican Calendar (with corresponding Gregorian dates listed) or the Gregorian alone will do, but every member's term should be in the same system. Mdotley 16:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm lost on what the problem is. The only place I see Republican dates is when we say "after 9 Thermidor", which is to say "after the fall of Robespierre et. al." - Jmabel | Talk 03:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calendars 

message: merge away! Gomm 17:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed! Carillonatreides 02:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Done. -Arch dude 00:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: This page really isn't that informative, shouldn't the stub modifier be attached to it? Carillonatreides 02:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd have no problem with that. - Jmabel | Talk 05:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub 

message: The sections on "Accomplishments of the Committee of Public Safety" and "Failures of the Committee of Public Safety" are so weak that I'm not sure I'd even give them a passing grade in a high school paper, and certainly not in anything past that level. Does someone want to take this on? - Jmabel | Talk 05:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weak 

message: I cut the following editorial comment to this TalkPage
====== Begin editorial comment
this article dont give enough information....
====== End editorial comment  --Rednblu 18:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cutting editorial comment to the TalkPage 

message: What rule was used to decide whether certain effects were "accomplishments" or "failures"?  Everything listed in the "accomplishments" section seems just as disastrous and unsavory... Adam Lein 05:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accomplishments and Failures? 

message: This article seems kind of biased by using the word "failures". Who are we to judge if killing thousands of people is a "failure", or if it save France.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.237.242 (talk) 02:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased 

message: No Frenchwomen at all, then? 86.136.250.154 (talk) 19:07, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Frenchmen were executed..." 

message: I agree with earlier comments that the "Failures" section should be removed completely, since in addition to potentially presenting a biased viewpoint, it's also very confusing: any section entitled "Failures" should really detail failed actions of the Committee-- i.e., goals which the Committee tried and failed to accomplish. Unless anyone objects (it seems like this page is slightly dead-ish?) I will remove it. I am also interested in doing a complete overhaul of the page, as this is a topic of pretty central importance to the French Revolution, and ought to be more fully explored.  Zhuravlei (talk) 05:43, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Failures" issue/proposed rehaul 

message: The main image for the article does not, in fact, show the Committee of Public Safety, but another one, according to the file's description. would it not be more appropriate to replace or remove this one? Therealpirateblue (talk) 00:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems sensible. Is there a free pic available that does show the Committee of Public Safety? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 03:51, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: The name of the committee in French is Comité de salut public. "Salut" in this case means salvation (as in "save the nation"), not safety. I suppose there's a tradition of calling it "safety", but a note could be added to alert the reader.
--189.130.252.42 (talk) 16:19, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have support for this take on the translation? I'm skeptical that, given the context, "salut" would so definitely translate to a word with overtones of religiosity, and that "safety" or "welfare" would be considered wrong. Dhtwiki (talk) 00:34, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "Salvation" is the translation used in Russian, for example. Vladislav.kuzkokov (talk) 17:45, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: ”Safety” is the standard English version in all mainstream texts on the subject. Mccapra (talk) 23:33, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salvation or Safety?