Talk:Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Birth date
Having corrected the birth date to Nov 17 after this version of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, I have now found a genealogy source giving Nov 9 as the birth date. Looks like some more research is needed to find out which date, if any, is correct. Lupo 13:42, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

His name
It's Pontécoulant. The astronomer Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Compte de Pontécoulant after whom the crater Pontécoulant on the moon is named, was his son. Lupo 13:58, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 07:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Did he refuse to defend Charlotte Corday or not?
The Brittanica says that he refused to defend her and that she sent him a letter of reproach for that, but the French ministry of justice  says that Corday's letter asking him to defend her did not arrive in time. In fact it seems that he did not receive the letter in time, but she thought he did not want to defend her. Hervegirod (talk) 06:45, 6 August 2018 (UTC)