Template:Did you know nominations/L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 16:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

The Year 2440

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Title page from "L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais" (1772 London edition), by Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814)

... that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Inquisition? Source: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37364176
- ALT1:... that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 is the origin of the futuristic setting of utopian fiction? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241146

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Historical policy of Law and Justice
Comment: I am open to moving this to an English title, and started a discussion on talk.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:01, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Created by Piotrus (talk). Self-nominated at 07:01, 20 October 2020 (UTC).

Date, length, hooks (original/ALT1) work out, refs accepted agf, qpq done. Close paraphrase not found. Image clearly PD, on commons. --Soman (talk) 11:03, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this but have a question. At first I wondered what the Spanish Inquisition has to do with France. Do you want to add the Holy See too?
ALT0a: ... that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Holy See and the Inquisition? Yoninah (talk) 17:59, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thanks, I am fine with the revised ALT0a above. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:03, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Pinging original reviewer @Soman: to check the additional fact I added to ALT0a. Yoninah (talk) 11:19, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

@Kingsif: could you help here please? Yoninah (talk) 22:19, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Suitably sourced ALT0a; the article probably needs a copyedit for its conversational tone but it should suffice for DYK. Kingsif (talk) 04:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC)