Talk:Geneviève Poitrine

A fact from Geneviève Poitrine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the wet nurse of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, was named Madame Poitrine, which can be translated as 'Madame Bosom'?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:21, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that the wet-nurse employed by Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette was known as Madame Poitrine (Madame Chest)?~~ Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34264811-histoire-de-versailles-de-ses-rues-places-et-avenues-depuis-l-origine Histoire de Versailles, de Ses Rues, Places Et Avenues Depuis L'Origine de Cette Ville Tome 2: Joseph Adrien Le Roi, 1797-1873))]

Created by Chienlit (talk). Self-nominated at 14:29, 14 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Chienlit reviewed Ansgar the Staller on 17 April

- The article is long enough and is suitably referenced. I added an image which is PD from Europeanna. The hook above is intriguing but I think misses the point that "Madame Chest" was actually her real surname (using other iffy sources), but the hook above is not untrue and its shortish and hooky. AGF as source is not online. I can't see any evidence of copyright violation. QPQ done. Thanks for this. GTG Victuallers (talk) 16:23, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Victuallers: would the hook read better as:
ALT0a: ~~... that the wet-nurse employed by Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette was called Madame Poitrine (Madame Chest)?~~ Yoninah (talk) 15:01, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Yoninah: IMO they both sound like its her nickname (which would not be surprising) surely the real hook is that:
ALT0a: ... that the real name of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette's wet-nurse was Madame Poitrine (which translates as Madame Chest)? Victuallers (talk) 16:20, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Victuallers: that sounds good to me. But as you can see, after blocking out the quotes taken from sources, the article text is less than 1500 characters. Yoninah (talk) 18:47, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The new hook is fine, much better than my original. I have nothing else to add about a 'simple country woman of no great historic portent'. So I assume that it will be rejected. Thanks for your efforts and interest. Chienlit (talk) 20:58, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Pity to lose this, I have added the missing bytes. Victuallers (talk) 12:00, 11 May 2020 (UTC) @Yoninah:[reply]

Thank you, Victuallers. The article is now start-class, but we need an inline cite for the ALT0a hook fact. The translation of poutine as "chest" is mentioned twice, with no cite. Yoninah (talk) 12:44, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actually its mentioned three times @Yoninah: as in "new nurse had a ...predestined name - Madame Poitrine - who had large breasts" which is reffed (to a French source), but I have added an extra ref to assist Victuallers (talk) 15:17, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Restoring tick for ALT0a per your review. Yoninah (talk) 15:20, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]