Talk:Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

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Birth date

Having corrected the birth date to Nov 17 after this version of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, I have now found a genealogy source giving Nov 9 as the birth date. Looks like some more research is needed to find out which date, if any, is correct. Lupo 13:42, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

His name

It's Pontécoulant. The astronomer Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Compte de Pontécoulant after whom the crater Pontécoulant on the moon is named, was his son. Lupo 13:58, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

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Did he refuse to defend Charlotte Corday or not?

The Brittanica ([1]) says that he refused to defend her and that she sent him a letter of reproach for that, but the French ministry of justice ([2]) says that Corday's letter asking him to defend her did not arrive in time. In fact it seems that he did not receive the letter in time, but she thought he did not want to defend her. Hervegirod (talk) 06:45, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]