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The French version is at http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Chartier, and has a lot more detail. Alas, I don't know French. Perhaps the name of this page should change? JohnWhitlock 22:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The picture is of the wrong Émile Chartier. The one born in 1868 wasn't a priest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.241.130 (talk) 22:51, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Then why does the same picture appear here[1]?  Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It must be because the blogger has made the same mistake. Here's a picture of the atheist Chartier (born 1868, a.k.a. 'Alain') [2] And here's a later picture of the French-Canadian Émile Chartier, the priest (born 1876). [3]. The earlier photo (which was on the page I edited) appears here [4], the Canadian-French Catholic Association.

Even if one were to claim that photo 1 is more like photo 3 than photo 2, you would also have to explain why Alain, known to be an atheist humanist philosopher, would be wearing a clerical collar in a photograph. I think Alain has been confused with the Canadian priest Chartier (born 1876) because Alain taught Simone Weil, a far more famous philosopher who is studied by Roman Catholic theologians. Monsoonmalabar (talk)

French block quote

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I think it would be best to translate or remove the long block quote in this article that is currently in French. This may have been common in older texts that assumed all their readers could read French, that isn’t appropriate here. K. M. Lawson (talk) 23:05, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]