[OT] localisation issue (was Re: [OT] Re: The exact birthday of French: 0842-02-14)]

From: Patrick Andries (pandries@iti.qc.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 12:56:24 EST


Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> At 1:28 PM +0000 3/28/02, Alistair Vining wrote:
>
>
>> I'm bearing in mind Sarasvati's imprecation to keep this "innocent,
>> non-denominational, and non-violent", but:
>>
>> Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts
>> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html
>>

Little "localisation" issue, for French speakers no battle took place
in 732 in Tours; there was, however, that very same year a very famous
battle in Poitiers (Charles Martel saving the Western World, etc.).
Around 100 km to the South of Tours.

P. Andries



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