Talk:Estates-General of 1789
| WikiProject France | (Rated Start-class, Low-importance) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||||||||||||||
| WikiProject History | |||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
 |
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day... section on May 5, 2006, May 5, 2007, May 5, 2008, May 5, 2009, and May 5, 2010. |
Contents |
[edit] Saasxasasx?
I don't know much about history, can anyone tell me what this word is? It's in the first paragraph after the intro. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.162.25 (talk) 04:05, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Freemasonry
The remark about Mirabeau being "a member of the freemasonry lodge of the Nine Sisters" was made by User:Melkart without citation. At about the same time, at Storming of the Bastille a similar remark was made, anonymously, about Camille Desmoulins. I am not sure of the accuracy or relevance of either statement; barring citation, I am inclined to revert, but will leave a chance for comment first. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:11, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] First & Second Estates
The clergy formed the first estate while the nobility formed the second estate. I fixed the language in the Background section but am unsure as to how to procede with the text later on. I cannot access the source text at quid.fr, as it is a paid service, in order to examine the original french material to attempt at least a rough translation to see why the 'translation' that appears here contradicts everything else.
The original poster needs to fix the obvious errors. This article contradicts Wikipedia's own Estates_of_the_realm as well as other postings on the internet (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1111044 http://www.france.com/culture/display_item.cfm?id=154 http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REV/FIRST.HTM http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture11a.html http://www.lepg.org/classes.htm)
[edit] Unattributed copying?
This text has much in common with that on http://www.france.com/culture/display_item.cfm?id=154 The latter includes some details missing from the current wikipedia article, but it's not clear which is the original. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.145.187.67 (talk • contribs) 19 July 2006.
- Their site explicitly acknowledges that they copied from us under GFDL; it looks like there are some minor compliance issues (they link back to our site for the text of the license instead of reproducing it themselves) but nothing major. - Jmabel | Talk 05:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A whole bunch of books
If you are going to make a change and say it reflects "a whole bunch of books", would it be so hard to cite one? - Jmabel | Talk 20:53, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
http://www.assumption.edu/dept/history/Hi118net/ChronologyFrenchRev.html gives 27 Dec 1788 as the date of the "doubling of the Third Estate". I'm not finding a lot else on line, once I weed out copies of our own article. Since the change matches the French-language Wikipedia, I'll presume it is correct, but a good citation would be very welcome. - Jmabel | Talk 21:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Estates-General convenes
This section does not read well, and there is a "word" (?) sinar which is neither French nor English. Perhaps it is meant to be "since", but the sentence still would not make sense. I have removed some stray letters which interrupted the text. --Melba1 (talk) 09:07, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
- It made no sense because two previous revisions by 129.171.150.71 (talk) were vandalism.
- --Frania W. (talk) 12:42, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
