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Perrine Dugué

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My goal is to submit this article for FA, so I would like feedback on whether it meets the high-quality bar for FA status. Please let me know where you see areas that need improvement. Thank you so much for your time.

Thanks, — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 05:51, 19 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've gotten some very helpful feedback on the article here: Talk:Perrine_Dugué#Difficulty_following_the_background_of_the_murder
One thing I want to do is better explain the war in the Vendée and the Chouannerie, how those conflicts relate to the Chouans in Dugué's area, and where Dugué and her family fit into it all. The order of events is, essentially:
  1. Chouans (who were from Dugué's area) joined with royalists that were marching to Granville to team up with British troops.
  2. Westermann defeats them and pursues the royalists back toward Dugué's area.
  3. Peasants, who had to deal with constant looting, banded together to defend their homes from the retreating forces (who were starving at this point). Events like that happened periodically throughout the war, and many peasants were massacred. But, as I understand it, the peasant resistance in December 1793 (with Westermann nearby, maybe also helping?) was very effective.
  4. Dugué's brothers were involved in hunting Chouans specifically, according to at least one source (they may have also hunted royalist troops; I need to research this further.)
  5. Dugué's brothers hid in Sainte-Suzanne because they were afraid that local Chouan's would retaliate against them.
  6. Westermann shows up in Sainte-Suzanne at some point and conscripts villagers, including Dugué's brothers, to help hunt Chouans (and maybe also hunt royalists, in general; I need to verify this.)
  7. Between December 1793 and Dugué's death in March 1796, the article has a big gap: the Chouannerie.
  8. Dugué visits her brothers often, and, in March 1796, she is targeted by local Chouans.
I'm going to work on making this timeline much more clear. I also think the article would really benefit from a map to show the royalist army's march to Granville and then the retreat toward Dugué's area. — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 21:57, 19 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

RoySmith

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  • At about 900 words, this is pretty sort for a FA. That's not necessarily a problem, but be prepared for people to ask about it at FAC.
  • who was murdered by Chouans Tell the reader what a Chouan is.
  • The local authorities had no power to seek justice why not?
  • buried in secret ... became a pilgrimage site. If the grave was a secret, how did it become a pilgrimage site?
  • There's lots of places mentioned: Granville, Maine, Sainte-Suzanne, la Grande Charnie, etc. A map would be useful.
  • On 22 March 1796 (2 Germinal, Year IV) Mention in-line that this is the French republican calendar; don't make the reader click through the link to figure it out.
  • claimed that she was killed by hussars Tell the reader what a hussar is.

Overall, this seems like a nice little article with good sources. Given the shortness, I'd put in extra effort to make sure you've really found all there is to know about the subject as WP:FACR requires "a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature" and reviewers will be pressing to make sure that's is the case. RoySmith (talk) 00:09, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! These are great points.
I feel like between your comment & the feedback I linked from the article's Talk page, I've gotten more than enough feedback to work on improvements. Plus as mentioned by another editor, there are sources in the fr.wiki that are worth looking into as well.
I'll keep this PR open for a few more days, just in case anyone else has any thoughts. — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 00:40, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I did a little searching in JSTOR and a bunch of articles in French (which I don't know) that look like they might be of value. https://www-jstor-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Perrine+Dugu%C3%A9&so=rel should replicate the search if you have TWL access to JSTOR. Also a lot of hits in Hathi Trust: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?q1=%22Perrine+Dugu%C3%A9%22&field1=ocr&a=srchls&ft=ft&lmt=ft. I'll leave it to you to slog through these and see if any of them have anything useful. RoySmith (talk) 00:42, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Much appreciated! — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 02:22, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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