Talk:Day of the Barricades

Violation of copyright, think you?
Please check now to ensure that the article I've just worked up isn't an imagined "violation of copyright", before the reflections in Wikipedia's numerous mirrors have you confused. Thank you. --Wetman (talk) 01:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Image subject mis-identified
My comment concerns one of the images referenced by this article, not the article itself. The image reference is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Le_duc_de_Guise_lors_de_la_journee_des_barricades_by_Paul_Lehugeur_19th_century.jpg The image in question is not "by Paul Lehugeur" (though it was reproduced in his book, Histoire de France en cent images) and it does not represent the duc de Guise (though Lehugeur, without stating this explicitly, does, erroneously, leave the reader to understand that this is Guise.) Lehugeur published a cropped version of an image which had earlier appeared in Gourdon de Genouillac's Paris à travers les siècles. In the process of cropping, Lehugeur eliminated all of the original information concerning the image (notably the fact that it was engraved by "Joliet" and that the publisher of Genouillac's book was "F. Roy". The caption of the original image clearly identified the central figure as Charles II de Cossé (comte de Brissac), who was a lieutenant and trusted adviser of the duc de Guise. Cossé is often credited (incorrectly, as it turns out, but that is a whole other story) as the "inventor" of the barricade, and Genouillac's caption specifically states that the image shows Cossé "presiding over the construction of the [first] barricades". This may seem a minor point, but I would rather not see the erroneous attribution propagated through combined force of Wikipedia and the Internet. If you would like further information, or in case of questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Marktraugott (talk) 21:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)