Talk:Orleans Collection

Who's the peacock?

Some editor removed "very important" from the opening phrase "The Orléans Collection was a very important collection..." with the summary that it was a "peacock" term. Deleting isn't editing, and a more thoughtful editor, taking a few moments to decide whether or not the "importance" of the Orléans Collection was mere puffery, might have pondered the question, "What are two other important non-royal collections that might be considered important?" Perhaps no names would have come to mind, in which case "important" might have been left to stand. A "peacock" term is a mark of editorial vanity: perhaps misapplying "peacock" to a judicious assessment of the historical importance of something is a bit of a vanity too. --Wetman (talk) 02:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Accent aigu

Why Orléans in the first line but Orleans in the title? It has the appearance of an oversight. Srnec (talk) 03:32, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

No, but I'm coming round to the view that the collection is Orleans and the dukes Orléans, although that is not how we have it at the moment. Johnbod (talk) 03:46, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

One reads "Orleenz collection", without the accent: attroce! —er, IMHO...--Wetman (talk) 14:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

That was the standard English pronunciation until a couple of generations ago, & seems most common in art history [1] I admit Nicholas Penny uses the accent in his NG Venetian catalogue. Johnbod (talk) 17:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Jean-Joseph de Laborde de Méréville

I have deleted my newedit. From Louis Courajod I had the following sequence: the banker of Brussels immediately sold it at a huge profit (note:Louis Courajod , Le livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, Paris, 1873:xx reported a purchase price of 750,000 livres and a sale price within days of 900,000 to Laborde.) to the enlightened connoisseur Jean-Joseph de Laborde de Méréville, who set about adding a gallery to house it attached to his hôtel in rue d'Artois. Then, when he was ruined in the Terror, though Courajod doesn't add this, it went to his son, who got away to England.

I dropped my addition which was just based on Courajod, 1873.--Wetman (talk) 05:45, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Christina of Sweden, 1626-1689, forced into exile when she converted to Catholicism ?????? If the state of Sweden followed the laws she should have been executed for beeing a catolic. Her exile was her own choice and she was supported by her cousin Charles X who became king after her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.235.46.204 (talk) 09:33, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Issue of Contradiction in Introduction

It states

"After the French Revolution the collection was sold by Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Philippe Égalité"

However Philippe Égalite was guillotined during the French Revolution. I suspect the editor wanted to say Louis Philippe I sold the collection during the Revolution. I made a simple correction. Chefs-kiss (talk) 22:24, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Didn't you read beyond the lead? But I can stick with "during". Johnbod (talk) 02:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)