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Pronunciation[edit]

Lahn? Lahnz? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.116.186 (talk) 21:58, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure it would be pronounced /lan/ with a silent "S", rhyming with the French pronunciation of the word "panne" or the city "Cannes" (listen to those words here on Wiktionary). --VolatileChemical (talk) 01:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Said like lawn. Also see Boulevard Lannes in Paris.

Lannes Vick 98.176.196.98 (talk) 03:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"This damned Bonaparte is going to get us all killed"[edit]

I added a [citation needed] for the quote "this damned Bonaparte is going to get us all killed" in the 'Napoleonic Wars' section, attributed with no source or date, as being said only "after his last campaign in Spain." It was added by an unregistered user in this edit in 2008 with no source or editing description, but I can't find a source for it in any of the referenced works: not in the Britannica entry, not in Dunn-Pattinson's Napoleon's Marshals, and not in Macdonell's Napoleon and His Marshals (although Google Books' search feature is limited but it doesn't seem to show up in any of the books' uses of "damned", "killed" or "Bonaparte"). I also couldn't find any French equivalent in the French Wikipedia entry for Lannes, though I'm not sure exactly what the original French would be for it if it is a real quote, there's no quote in the Lannes entry that is anything like this one. Same goes for the English Wikiquote entry for Napoleon as well as the French Wikiquote entry for him, neither of which have any quotes from Lannes. The quote seems to only appear on Google in results which are similarly unsourced on other wikis and forums, many taken directly from this very Wikipedia article, possibly all of them, given how many of them either reproduce the entire Wiki entry text or reproduce the phrase "after his last campaign in Spain" verbatim. So if this is a real quote, the internet seems to return no source for it other than this Wikipedia entry. If anyone knows a source for this quote, please add. --VolatileChemical (talk) 01:02, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]