Talk:Étienne Macdonald

"Plus ça change: Scots are a nation of boozers"

 * Sunday Times article, 11 April 2010:

"A recently unearthed diary, written by Marshal Alexandre MacDonald, the son of a Jacobite exile, reveals how in some respects little has changed since 1825. His travel diary, buried in the French National Archives for decades, recounted his impressions on his first visit to his ancestral homeland. It included an account of a boisterous evening in the company of a drunken Sir Walter Scott. MacDonald’s father fled his native South Uist in 1746 along with Bonnie Prince Charlie for France, following the Young Pretender’s defeat at Culloden. Accustomed to Parisian society, his son, the Duke of Tarentum, was scandalised by the behaviour of his hosts. He wrote in condescending terms of the peasant-like appearance of Scottish women, the shabbiness of the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the dreary Scottish countryside. On June 18, 1825, as he headed over the Cheviot hills towards the Borders..."

--Mais oui! (talk) 05:49, 11 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Uist celebrates MacDonald who became trusted Napoleonic general, The Times, 1 May 2010
 * --Mais oui! (talk) 05:08, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Death date
Other sources have Macdonald's death date as 25 September 1840; is there is any reason Wikipedia has a different death date? Pikle (talk) 20:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

No response to above question, so I've changed the death date in line with most other sources, and, indeed, the French version of the same page.Pikle (talk) 11:18, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

His 3rd wife was born either 13 April 1789 Hambourg (deceased 13 April 1825 Paris) or 21 May 1789 Hambourg (deceased 13 April 1870 Paris). Both sources say he had a son named Alexandre born 6 August 1824 Paris (deceased 6 April 1881 - Paris), not Louis-Marie. Date 13 April is a little too many times here. Did all of three wifes die relatively soon after childbirth. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Beno%C3%AEte-Jos%C3%A9phine_Pr%C3%A9vost_de_La_Croix Samwonderer (talk) 22:31, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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Typography of his name
Hello,

This person was a French citizen and the writing of his name is "Macdonald" in the French registers, that since the time of Napoleon the first. For example, he was awarded the Legion d'honneur, and the manuscripts clearly show that this was the usage at that time ; please see (you have to click on the various sheets in order to magnify them, once activated it functions like a slideshow).

Do you think you would rename this file according to that French practice. Regards. --LeoAlig (talk) 00:09, 2 February 2021 (UTC)