Talk:Alphonse van Gèle

Alphonse van Gèle = Alphonse van Gele


 * What is your point? Srnec (talk) 21:33, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Contemporaries spelled his name "van Gèle". See here, here and here. The cited source, Janssens and Cateaux, uses the grave accent. I am restoring the accent. Srnec (talk) 02:32, 30 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ANSWER http://www.kaowarsom.be/fr/notices_vangele_alphonse  I am belgian and speek french and dutch . Van Gele is also and belgian. This name whith accent grave  is a mistake . Please look there http://www.kaowarsom.be/fr/notices_vangele_alphonse

http://www.archive.org/stream/loeuvrecivilisat00reni#page/n225/mode/2up In french and in dutch it is not possible tou pronounce Van Gèle. But it is possible to pronounce Van Gelé like on this photo https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5#/media/File:Stanley_Founding_of_Congo_Free_State_265_Lieutenant_Vangele.jpg. It is also impossible to join the french article with the article in english. In Brussels (Etterbeek 1040 Bruxelles ) there is a street who have this name: Rue Colonel Van Gele ( no Van Gelé or Gèle ). This man is an belgian and in Belgium write the people Van Gele or Van Gelé ( rare) but  Van Gèle it is impossible in french and in dutch. A lived in Congo Belge a lot oy years in Kasaï and this man worked there. So long Mortier.Daniel (talk) 11:36, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The english historian  Barbara Emerson  in  Léopold II le royaume et l'empire  ISBN 2 8011 0287 5 édition Duculot Paris Gembloux, used also the name Alhonse Van Gele (p.180-181)without accent . This woman write in 1980 and you give me books of 1880. If you prefer Van Gèle thère are many problems fot the belgians and the people who speaks french or dutch to find this man on Wikipédia. See whats happend : the articles in english is alone and they are many artiles in deutch, swedich, bulgarian.

Thank you for your help. Mortier.Daniel (talk) 11:49, 30 August 2017 (UTC)