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It seems like a lot of primary sources for this article used the French name. Even if it was incorrect, maybe that was how it was commonly referred to outside o
by burkaman 2y ago
It seems like a lot of primary sources for this article used the French name. Even if it was incorrect, maybe that was how it was commonly referred to outside of Belgium at the time?
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1502002700 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1502002700
- https://www.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/wgt/ww-one/Start/Weissbluten/Technology_and_Science/pdf/ww1_ger_08_06_04_reply.pdf https://www.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/wgt/ww-one/Start/Weissbluten...
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25122278.pdf?acceptTC=true https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25122278.pdf?acceptTC=true
- Insanity 2y agoBelgium was in an odd state of bilingualism at the time. While the people of the area would speak Flemish (“Dutch”), those in positions of power and education institutions would use French as the Lingua Franca. I was born in Leuven and lived there for 30 years of my life - it would be pretty odd to see contemporary references as “Louvain” by those local to it.