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I assumed they meant https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chien_jaune https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chien_jaune, one of the best Maigret stories. (Why is it a c
by bloak 7y ago
I assumed they meant https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chien_jaune https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chien_jaune, one of the best Maigret stories.
(Why is it a capital C in the Wikipedia article?)
- eatonphil 7y agoAh, that makes much more sense. Thank you.
- ernesth 7y ago> Why is it a capital C in the Wikipedia article? That is the way book titles are capitilized in french: the first word excluding articles gets a capital letter. It is also according to this word that the book will be sorted. Same for "La Tête d'un homme", previous book in the series.
- bloak 7y agoInteresting. I didn't know that. The Oxford Style Manual confirms what you say. (I'm not sure whether it's telling you to do that when quoting a French title in English; it might just be talking about what to do when a book title appears in a passage in French.) Apparently the rule doesn't apply to the actual title page: the 1968 copy, which I happen to have and was able, somewhat surprisingly, to find in less than 60 seconds, has "Le chien jaune" on the title page, page 3.