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I initially selected the title "Abel Tasien d'Alonne", because this title was already used on the Dutch Wikipedia. That article is hardly referenced, however. When I dug deeper into the matter I discovered first the fact that the family which adopted Abel has always spelled the "double name" ("Tasien" is part of the surname, and not a "middle name") as Tassin d'Alonne. It turns out that the only instances of the use of "Tasien" in the contemporary literature are by Christiaan Huygens, and in a number of British manuscripts of letters (e.g. Maunde Thompson, E., ed. (1878). Correspondence of the Family of Hatton: Being Chiefly Letters Addressed to Christopher, First Viscount Hatton, 1601-1704. Vol. 2. Camden Society. p. 54. Retrieved 5 August 2023.). In recent times the only "original" use of "Tasien" occurs in the dissertation of Karl de Leeuw (which I used as a reference), even though he used the correct spelling also in that work. So it seems to me that we should use the "official" spelling of the surname (i.e. Tassin) and put in an explanatory foot note about the alternative Tasien. I will move the article accordingly. Ereunetes (talk) 18:58, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
