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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
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Battle of Valmy edit
The Battle of Valmy, 1792
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Goethe was present at the French victory in the Battle of Valmy and judged it to be the beginning of "a new era in the history of the world"?- ALT1:... that Goethe was present at the French victory in the Battle of Valmy and judged it to be the beginning of "a new epoch in the history of the world"?
- Reviewed: Giant Days
Improved to Good Article status by SteveStrummer (talk). Self-nominated at 23:38, 17 January 2017 (UTC).
New enough (promoted to Good Article status on 17 January 2017), long enough (9,290 characters "readable prose size"), fully referenced. Image has appropriate licence. QPQ done. Hook offline and noprmally it would be AGF but I have looked it up against my copy of the source, which says: Watching all this was Goethe, brought along by the Duke of Weimar to enliven the expected military promenade. In the stunned disappointment of the Prussian camp that damp night he offered Job's comfort to his fellow invaders. 'Here and today,' he told them, 'a new epoch in the history of the world has begun, and you can boast you were present at its birth'
- Which does not match the article or the hook. Sigh. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:30, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
- The translation "From this place, and from this day forth begins a new era in the history of the world, and you can all say that you were present at its birth" is a common one, and was originally inserted in 2007. Doyle's translation is not significantly different, but I'll change it now. SteveStrummer (talk) 04:28, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
