User:MatthieuN

Hello, I am Matthieu. I am a native resident of South-western France, living in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, part of Medieval Gascony and ancient (real one) Aquitaine. My family finds its origin in various places of France including Normandy and Brittany, and I was born in Toulouse.

I have got several different points of interests, first an most obvious is medieval history.

I consider myself level 3 in English skills but Oxford's test ranked me 170/200 and the European Speed one between level 4 and 5 which would be closer to Wikipedia's level 4.

I am an administrator on a forum on modern architecture and urbanism: skyscrapercity.com. It shouldn't be too hard to find me there.

I am playing Warhammer 40,000 and you can already find me on some forums.

My contributions to wikipedia.
Largely wrote by me, but of course I don't claim exclusivity
 * Angevin Empire
 * Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
 * Tour Sans Fins
 * Laguiole knife
 * Requiem Chevalier Vampire

Booklist
If you need information from these books don't hesitate to ask.

On history, politic and others:
In French
 * Guerres et Civilisations: De l'Assyrie à l'ère contemporaine - Gérard Chailland. Editions Odile Jacob.
 * Les Celtes - Comité des Amis du Palazzo Grassi. Editions EDDL
 * L'Empire des Plantagenêt - Martin Aurell. Editions Tempus
 * Noblesse de l'Espace Plantagenêt (1154 - 1124) - Table ronde tenue à Poitiers. Editions Civilisations Médiévales. (this one also has parts in English)
 * Les Templiers: Une Chevalerie Chrétienne au Moyen Age - Alain Demurger. Editions Seuil
 * Chronologie des Hospitaliers: Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte - Maurice Caron. Editions Atlantica
 * Saint Louis - Gérard Sivéry. Editions Tallandier
 * Philipe le Bel - Silvie le Clech. Editions Tallandier
 * La Grande Armée. Editions Trésor du patrimoine

In English
 * The Next Superpower?: The Rise of Europe and Its Challenge to the United States - Rockwell A. Schnabel & Francis X. Rocca. Editions Rowman and Littlefield.
 * Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report - Francesco Carotta.
 * The Angevin Empire - John Gillingham. Editions Arnold.
 * The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066 - 1284 - David Carpenter. Editions Penguin.
 * Capetian France 987 - 1328 - Elizabeth M. Hallam & Judith Everard. Editions Longman.
 * God's War: A New History of the Crusades - Chrystopher Tiermann. Editions Penguin - Allan Lane.
 * The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300 - c.1450 - Christopher Allmand. Editions Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.
 * The Albigensian Crusade - Jonathan Sumption. Editions FF.
 * The Norman Kingdom of Sicily - Donald Matthew. Editions Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
 * Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages - K.W. Nicholls. Editions Lilliput.
 * The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 - Paul Kennedy. Editions Fontana Press.
 * From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism & the Armenian Genocide - Taner Akçam. Editions Zed Books.
 * A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 - Alistair Horne. Editions NYRB.
 * A Few Bloody Noses: The American Revolutionary War - Robert Harvey. Editions Robinson.
 * The American Civil War: The Mighty Scourge of War - Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen D. Engle, Robert K. Krick & Joseph T. Glatthaar. Editions Osprey.
 * The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Gregory Fremont-Barnes & Todd Fished. Editions Osprey

On computing:
In French
 * Communication, Modems, Télématique Editions Micro Application
 * Dictionnaire d'Informatique - M. Ginguay and A. Lauret. Editions Masson
 * TCP/IP sous Windows NT 4 Editions ENI (Microsoft certified)
 * OS/2 2.0: DOS et Windows sous OS/2, Gestionaire de Presentation, Multitache, HPFS..." Editions Micro-Application
 * Architecture des réseaux informatiques tome 1: Les Outils de Communication - G. Pujolle & E. Horlait. Editions Eyrolles (I lack the second tome)
 * OS/2 2.0 Editions Micro-Application
 * Oracle 10g Administration - Olivier Heurtel. Editions ENI
 * Apache Version 2: Installation, Administration et Sécurisation - Mikael Pirio. Editions ENI
 * Cisco: Installation, Configuration et Maintenance de Réseaux - Djilali Seba. Editions ENI
 * Windows Server 2003: Planifier et Optimiser une Infrastructure Réseau - Anne Guillon. Editions ENI

In English
 * Novell's guide to NetWare LAN Analysis - Laura Chappell. Editions Novell Press
 * PowerPC Microprocessor, Architecture, Software, Tools, Applications Editions Design & Elektronik
 * Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL Editions Oracle

On architecture & urbanism
In French
 * L'art Gothique: Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture - various authors. Editions Köneman
 * Qu'est ce que l'architecture aujourd'hui?. Editions Beaux Arts
 * Fléxible: Une Architecture pour repondre au changement - Robert Kronenburg. Editions Norma
 * L'art Baroque: Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture - various authors. Editions Place des Victoires