Talk:Jacques I, Prince of Monaco

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Why Jacques I?
Why is he Jacques I, when there hasn't been a Jacques II (although there probably will be)? Tad Lincoln (talk) 22:57, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Article of dubious accuracy
This article appears to me to be unfair to its subject. According to Princes of Monaco (1961, Archives du Palais de Monaco) Jacques I's marriage was both loving and faithful, so far from maintaining a stable of mistresses at Versailles he disliked Court life and rarely attended there, residing instead in his Paris townhouse or on his estates in Normandy, and was perfectly popular in Monaco. The book, which I have in English translation published by Arthur Barker, also in 1961, seems to me to be objective, fair and well-researched, offering numerous citations as opposed to the article's total of zero. M. Bernardy appears to have won numerous prizes for her historical writing, including from the Academie Francaise, and overall I am far more inclined to trust the book than the article. If no one has responded to this within a few days I will edit the article accordingly. The Matignons incidentally were not an old Norman family, they were an old Breton family an earlier generation of which had married a Norman heiress.

--86.191.96.24 (talk) 11:25, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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