Talk:John Antoine Nau

Evidence for and against this article
There is no such place as King's College, Oxford. Numerous colleges were founded by kings and Brasenose is even called King's Hall and the College of the Brazen Nose, but there is no college called "King's". Further, I don't think Oxford colleges have Directors of Literary Studies or whatever it calls "Dr Brent". On the other hand, seven years would in fact be the correct length of time for him to be kept waiting for his degree since the MA is conferred 21 terms after matriculation. This detail could have become confused in the translation from English into French and back into English again.

Ah, ok, I looked on the university catalogue and there is one book:

Author Nau, John-Antoine, 1860-1918. Title Force ennemie : roman / John-Antoine Nau. Publisher Paris : Editions de la plume, 1903. Description [4], 351, [1] p. ; 19 cm.

Library Holdings Location Call Number Status Maison Franc. MFO Main Libr R NAU 1 Available

and indeed Torquet, Eugène, 1860-1918 (0) redirects to [See] Nau, John-Antoine, 1860-1918 (1)--AlexanderLondon 19:55, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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OK, here's the text of the article in the French Wikipedia:

John-Antoine Nau (1860-1918), le premier des lauréats du Prix Goncourt.

De son vrai nom Eugène-Léon-Édouard-Joseph Torquet, John-Antoine Nau est né le 19 novembre 1860 à San Francisco (USA). Il meurt à Tréboul, à 53 ans, le 17 mai 1918.

En 1903, il reçoit le premier prix Goncourt pour son roman Force ennemie paru en février de la même année. Mais le prix est encore inconnu et Nau restera dans l'oubli.

And here's a translation from altavista:

John-Antoine Nau (1860-1918), the first of the prizes winner of the Goncourt Price. From his true name Eugene-Leon-Édouard-Joseph Torquet, John-Antoine Nau was born on November 19, 1860 in San Francisco (the USA). He dies in Tréboul, at 53 years, May 17, 1918. In 1903, it receives the first Goncourt price for its Force novel enemy appeared in February of the same year. But the price is still unknown and Nau will remain in l'oubli.

Anybody want to tackle that? :) RickK 02:54, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

Old text should be moved out of article space to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. -- Infrogmation 18:36, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

Is this a joke?
I know nothing about this guy, and can find no evidence either corroborating or detracting what is written here, so I'll leave it, but it sure sounds like a joke to me.--Jackyd101 12:48, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This was a stub someone added a lot of nonsense to - I reverted it back to the stub. Ruhrfisch 19:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)