Monday, September 13, 2010

S�golène Royal and Wikipedia hoodwinked by story of anti-slavery activist

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Lon-Robert de LAstran, an 18th-century shipowner, was praised for his eminent refusal to experience in the worker trade. Sadly, however, it seems that he existed usually as an internet anything forged duping Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, for 3 years, along with Sgolène Royal and others.

The 2007 Socialist presidential claimant extolled the virtues of de LAstran on Facebook but fast private the anxiety when the law was revealed.

Others have been taken in too, Ms Royals speechwriter said.

The anything forged came to light when a tyro maybe desirous by Mrs Royals vibrant loyalty voiced that he dictated to write a thesis formed on the good man. He asked Jean-Louis Mah, a historian in La Rochelle, the west seashore pier that was presumably de LAstrans hearth in 1767, for help.

I had never seen that name, pronounced Mr Mah. You cant check any of the details. He doesnt figure in any of the registers from that period, and neither does the vessel that he presumably hereditary from his father.

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