A 10:17 2001-11-30 +0100, Thierry Sourbier a �crit :
>To comment on a previous remarks made in the thread:
>
> > Alain LaBont� wrote:
> > it is true that there has always been a usage for unaccented uppercase
> > initials of sentences (or proper names), on both sides of the Atlantic
> > indeed, and for consistent accentuation, regardless of case.
>
>While I'm not disagreing with the previous comment, we can note that on
>www.larouse.net, accents are used even on the first letter of the sentences
>(e.g. "� la fois plate-forme de diffusion...."). I could not find any
>documentation confirming/restricting such a use. I don't even want to think
>on how such a usage could be computerized :).
[Alain] I said in the remaining of the article that one had to observe the
articles in main French dictionaries. I should have given the consluion:
all entries headings are in capital letters, of course with full-fledged
accented letters everywhere a word has an accent...
Another place to look in Paris: even the august stone building of the
ASSEMBL�E NATIONALE shows an accent.
And I was personally witness that the PALAIS DES CONGRES had to put a
stainless steel grave accent in 1991 (if my memory is good) to become, from
a palace for fish, a real PALAIS DES CONGR�S... I guess many were insulted
to be considered as fish when they were going to marketing exhibitions...
(:
Alain LaBont�.
Qu�bec
