Talk:Antoine Gombaud

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Article created from a translation of a French article of the same title. I did not check whether it already existed under a different title or not, being pressed for time. Topquark170GeV 13:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I rewrote this article
I added some up-to-date sources and information and corrected the misstatement that Gombaud was a nobleman.

Gombaud is is most famous for events in which he played only a minor, indirect role. If not for those, he would be unlikely to have a Wikipedia entry, except possibly in French. He was a minor 17th-century social philosopher with an elegant writing style, whose ideas proved to be dead-ends and whose writings have rarely been translated. A comparison more familiar to English-speakers is Paul Revere, a provincial 18th-century silversmith and patriot, who is most famous because his name rhymes with "hear," so he was given credit by Longfellow for deeds of another, and those deed inflated.

On one hand, I felt the entry should do some justice to the man himself, his ideas and writings. On the other hand, it had to mention the events that make him remembered today, even though he played such a small role in them. I hope I struck the right balance.

AaCBrown (talk) 15:12, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Not a noble man
Why do you say he was not a noble man? Sources?MauricioGaray (talk) 12:41, 15 May 2020 (UTC)