A 10:17 2001-11-30 +0100, Thierry Sourbier a écrit : >To comment on a previous remarks made in the thread: > > > Alain LaBonté 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. "À 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 ASSEMBLÉE 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 CONGRÈS... I guess many were insulted to be considered as fish when they were going to marketing exhibitions... (: Alain LaBonté. Québec