Template:Did you know nominations/Capitoul

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The result was: promoted by Jolly Ω Janner 02:41, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Capitoul

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The eight capitouls for 1623

• ... that Toulouse was long governed by magistrates known as capitouls?

• ALT1:... that backroom negotiations and bribery were commonplace in the election of Toulouse's capitouls?
• ALT2:... that the Toulousians believed their medieval capitouls were a continuation of the Roman consuls?
• ALT3:... that election as one of Toulouse's eight annual capitouls elevated one into the French nobility?
• ALT4:... that Toulouse's medieval magistrates, the capitouls, were once thrown to the ground and trampled during a religious parade?
• ALT5:... that Louis XIV championed Toulouse's capitouls during the Fronde only to subjugate them to the regional Parliament afterwards?
• ALT6:... that Toulouse's bishop complained that the town's seneschal and capitouls were arresting clerics indescriminately, torturing them, and throwing them into the Garonne at night?
• ALT7:... that one failed candidate for Toulouse's Capitoulate tearfully complained in court that his 4000-livre bribe had bought him nothing?
• ALT8:... that Toulouse's eight annual capitouls were entitled to a free red and black silk and ermine cape?
• Reviewed: Susquehecka Creek

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 04:56, 4 January 2016 (UTC).

• Note to potential reviewers: remember you don't have to actually verify all nine hooks; just the one you'd like to promote. — LlywelynII 05:20, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

• Article is new enough, long enough, and free of copyvios (with offline and French sources accepted AGF), with plenty of inline sources, and it looks neutral enough. QPQ is done, and the image is usable. All of the hooks are within policy and usable, but I think ALT7 is the most interesting.Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 03:43, 11 January 2016 (UTC)