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Antoine Huré

 * ... that when French Colonel Antoine Huré led a column to relieve the French garrison at Aïn Médiouna in 1919, elements of it marched 62 kilometres (39 miles) in a single day?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fourth Assembly of Madras State
 * Comment: Source is a French language newspaper. Pertinent part is "Dès maintenant, on peut signaler l'effort admirable accompli, par les forces du détachement de secours, qui accomplirent une marche très dure une d'elles couvrit 62 kilomètres en une seule journée."  Which I translate to "Now we can report the admirable effort of the relief column which accomplished a very hard march in which one part covered 62 kilometres in a single day"

Created by Dumelow (talk). Self nom at 17:04, 5 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I've started reviewing this nomination. Carcharoth (talk) 04:28, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, the length is fine. It was moved from a sandbox to article space with this edit on 5 January 2013 so it is new enough. The hook is short enough, is interesting, doesn't breach any policies, and is cited. QPQ review requirement met. Article and sources look good. Need to do one more read through, but then this should be good to go. Carcharoth (talk) 04:36, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Have now read the article and looked at a couple of the sources. Looks fine, with a few quibbles: sometimes the present tense is used in the article, when it shouldn't really, and I don't think there is any need to capitalise the three occurrences of AM. It would be good to know his birth and death year if this is known. Various library catalogues and this source seem to think he was born in 1873 and died in 1949. Plug that into Google Books and you get the source Hommes et destins: dictionnaire biographique d'outre-mer (volumes 1-2), and on page 365 the snippet says: "'Antoine HURÉ (1873-1949) Dans le bulletin de l'Association des anciens élèves de l'Ecole Polytechnique paraissait en novembre 1949 un article du général Appiano intitulé : « Un beau soldat - Un grand Français. Le général Huré ...'" Tantalising! :-) The hook should tell the reader who he is. Suggest adding "French army officer". One caveat: I was not sure whether some of the text in the article is direct translation from the sources, or whether it has been paraphrased (as it should be)? If quoted and translated, that needs to be made clear. The final source (Broché) shouldn't really include a link to Amazon. Much of this is not required for DYK, but will check back tomorrow when it should be ready to go. Carcharoth (talk) 05:10, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello again Carcharoth. Thanks once again for your thorough review of the article.  I have made a more in depth reply at the talk page that I hope you will check (note I have been able to substantially expand the article using Huré's service records that the French Ministry of culture have online).  I have changed the AMs to the 9.00 format which I think is preferred in the MOS anyway and corrected all the present tense I spotted.  There should be no direct quotes from the sources which haven't been parahphrased (I would be very surprised if any of it survived my schoolboy French translation anyway!) but I will have a quick check through.  I have added "French Colonel" to the hook to make it more clear as you recommended.  Many thanks - Dumelow (talk) 11:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Have read over the expansion (which is indeed substantial!). All looks great. Only remaining suggestion for the hook would be to mention Morocco in some way, but the mention of the place and the link to it is likely enough. Marking this as good to go. Carcharoth (talk) 17:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg All good to go, based on above discussion. Carcharoth (talk) 17:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)