[OOC]
Well, how pedantic do you want to get? :) Webster's or Oxford
dictionaries don't have seventeenth century french forms of address
listed do they?
My desultory investigations revealed the page: [
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/nobility/nobstyle.htm ],
which seems to have some pertinent information.
This page basically suggests that things weren't as formalized as we
might think.
There is no indication of the use of the term "Excellency" or a French
equivalent for anyone, although ministers are not discussed. Still, if
you're nobility, who's to stop you calling yourself 'Excellency'?
You can turn a deaf ear to the sniggering.
Tim
Mark Rogers wrote:
>
> All OOC:
>
> I recently recall somebody addressing their own character as "Excellency",
> this didn't seem quite right to me.
>
> I checked in the Oxford English (Real English ;=) dictionary as well as
> Websters (American English??).
>
> It seems that the only people/characters in an EnGarde! game who ought to
> be addressed as "Excellency" would be the FoM or a foreign ambassador....
>
> ... and yes, I am sometimes a bit of a pedant regarding titles etc. ;-)
