Talk:Pierre André de Suffren

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I added "he has been called the best French naval commander of the 18h Century"; I wish I could credit the source... Trekphiler 12:24, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Bah! Sounds likely enough. Rama 12:31, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Size
The fr.wiki version of this article is the second largest of all pages on that language. That means there's a lot more to write about! violet/riga [talk] 16:20, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

My rewrite of the article
Hello,

I have been rewriting the article rather extensively in the past few days.
 * Sources: For the moment I have been using Hennequin and Cunat as sources. I am aware that both are 19th-century writers, whose purpose is at least as much to write a Golden Legend for political purposes as it is to write an accurate history. I am trying to extract only factual statements from their texts and to keep the Wikipedia article as dry as possible (in this respect I have serious misgivings towards the French-language equivalent of this article). I have more serious and modern books underway that I will use later to refine the article but under the present sanitary circumstances their date of arrival is uncertain.
 * Length: There is also a balance between details and overburdening the page that is not easy to find. There are lots of details to add to the articles about the ships, places and people mentioned in the article, and the specific articles about the various battle could often use a rewrite to Battle of Grand Port standard as well.

If I am obviously erring at some point, I would be very grateful for input. Cheers! Rama (talk) 08:21, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Strewn with typos
For what is meant to be an encyclopaedia this is a very slovenly piece of writing. I started reading and ended up correcting. It's easier to spray typos around than to clear them up.METRANGOLO1 (talk) 11:45, 12 September 2020 (UTC)