Born in 1957. French, living in Reims, department of Marne, France.

Languages: French, able to read English, without being able to write it correctly.

Studies: civil engineering (especially soil mechanics), mathematics.

Interests: read above, plus politics, ecology, the history of sciences.

Hobbies: cycling, juggling with diabolos (one in each hand), wikipediaing.

The pages I translated (or adapted) from the Wikipedia in English to the Wikipedia in French

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In chronological order of translation.

whose translation was already begun several months before my completion. I hope I didn't offend the first translator.

Unicase or unicameral alphabet

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An adaptation of a page in French towards Wikipedia in English

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With the help of a British man who was nice enough to correct my mistakes.

I wrote

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A demonstration in the Wikipedia in French Flambage

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I created the article; it was so much changed and improved since the beginning that there is nothing left from my writing.

BAC A SABLE DE mon adaptation de Jean-Norton CRU

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Jean Norton Cru, born in Labatie-d'Andaure (Ardèche), in France, on September 9, 1879 - died in Bransles (Seine-et-Marne) on June 21, 1949, was a French writer.

He is known for his essay Témoins (Witnesses), published in 1929, in which he checks the veracity of testimonies published by World War I fighters. The following year he gave an abridged version, Du témoignage (About testimony).

Biography

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Family

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The eldest of six children[1], he was born in Gamon, commune of Labatie-d'Andaure, in the Ardèche, on September 9, 1879 [2]. He was the son of Jean Pierre Louis Cru (1849-1914), a Protestant pastor of peasant origin, and Catherine Norton (1847-1936), an Englishwoman (hence her middle name [3]) from a family of doctors and engineers in Gloucestershire[4].

Early life

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From the end of December 1883[5] to 1890, Jean Norton lived in New Caledonia, on the island of Maré, where his father was a missionary. He doesn't go to school. His school and religious education was taken care of by his parents, especially his mother[6].

Studying and teaching

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Back in France, his father was appointed to the parish of La Pervenche, in Privas. Louis Norton did a year of primary school, then he attended secondary school, as an intern, at the Lycée de Tournon-sur-Rhône. From 1897 to 1899, he was deeply marked by the Dreyfus affair. He kept a demand for the truth and a mistrust about the testimonies that would later lead him to write Witnesses[7]. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1899. During the 1899–1900 school year he taught at Granville College, Ramsgate, Kent[8]. From 1900 to 1903, he did his military service in the 140th Infantry Regiment in Grenoble. He finished it as corporal[9]. His parents bought a farm in Mirmande, in the Drôme. He worked on the farm and participated in the restoration work, while preparing his teacher's certificate, which he obtained. He taught for a year at Loriol-sur-Drôme[10]. From 1905 to 1908, he taught English at the upper primary school of Aubenas (he received his certificate of aptitude for teaching English in the upper primary in 1906)[8]. It was in Aubenas that he married Rose Souquet, in 1908. The same year, he obtained his secondary certificate in English. His younger brother Robert Loyalty has just spent a year teaching at a private American university, Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. On his advice, Jean Norton went there. He taught French literature there until 1911. During the 1911-1912 school year, he taught English at the high school of Oran[11], Algeria. He was dissatisfied with the experience, and his wife contracted typhoid fever. He returned to Williams College.

World War I

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After the war

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About Témoins and Témoignages

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Historiographical context

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A methodological method

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Works

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ « Le contrôle de la véracité des ouvrages traitant de la guerre », sur memoire-ardeche.com, note 2.
  2. ^ Acte de naissance de Jean Norton Cru, sur archinoe.net, archives départementales de l'Ardèche.
  3. ^ His parents gave Jean his mother's maiden name of "Norton" as his middle name. Thus, in his full name of Jean Norton Cru, only "Cru" is his patronymic. See Philippe Olivera's note on this subject in his important preface to the abridged reprint of Témoins, Agone, 2022, p. XII, note I.
  4. ^ Hélène Vogel, « Jean Norton Cru », in Jean Norton Cru, Du témoignage, Pauvert, 1967, p. Missing parameter/s! (Template:P.)157.
  5. ^ Jacques Vernier, « Jean Norton Cru, illustre batioulou méconnu », sur lamastre.net, 14 février 2010.
  6. ^ Rémy Cazals, « Cru, Jean Norton », sur crid1418.org, décembre 2007.
  7. ^ Hélène Vogel, ibid, p. Missing parameter/s! (Template:P.)159 et 160. Elle cite une lettre de Cru du 5 mars 1931.
  8. ^ a b (in English) « Williams College - Class of 1942 », sur e-yearbook.com, p. Missing parameter/s! (Template:P.)30.
  9. ^ Jean Norton Cru, « Avant-propos », Témoins, Paris, Les Étincelles, 1929, p. Missing parameter/s! (Template:P.)==viii restored== The page viii has been restored after its deletion was contested at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion. As you nominated the article to be deleted via WP:PROD, you may wish to nominate it for a full deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. .
  10. ^ Alain Bihr, « Méthodologie de la critique du témoignage : autour de l’œuvre de Jean Norton Cru », sur revue-interrogations.org, Interrogations, No. 13, décembre 2011.
  11. ^ « Fichier du personnel du lycée Lamoricière », sur alysgo-apollo.org.