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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

In chronological order of translation.

Sailing stones

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

An adaptation of a page in French towards Wikipedia in English

Faux de Verzy

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

I wrote

Euler's critical load

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

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

Family

The eldest of six children, he was born in Gamon, commune of Labatie-d'Andaure, in the Ardèche, on September 9, 1879 . 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 ) from a family of doctors and engineers in Gloucestershire.

Early life

From the end of December 1883 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.

Studying and teaching

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. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1899. During the 1899–1900 school year he taught at Granville College, Ramsgate, Kent. From 1900 to 1903, he did his military service in the 140th Infantry Regiment in Grenoble. He finished it as corporal. 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. 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). 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, 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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About Témoins and Témoignages

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