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Lynx-lynx · 12-01-2014, 04:32 AM

I just searched for info on the Dreyfus affair (France 1894) and thought there'd probably be a wiki link, and yes there was, but there was also an Encyclopædia Britannica link, so I chose that.

Encyclopædia Britannica is a free site and the article that I looked at didn't nominate an author, so I assume that it was written by the Britannica staff Editors.

I don't know how limited the site is for information but as Britannica's reputation goes it's certainly a site that I'll refer to again.

Anyone else used it?

(The book I've started to read is Robert Harris' An Officer and a Spy which uses the techniques of a novel to retell the true story of the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal and miscarriage of justice that in the 1890s came to obsess France and ultimately the entire world. Zola supported Dreyfus and wrote J'accuse which is what I was interested in following up.)

12-01-2014, 04:32 AM	#1
Lynx-lynx Treachery of images ... Posts: 4,122 Karma: 93720365 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Australia Device: Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2, Libra Colour	Encyclopædia Britannica competing with Wikipedia? I just searched for info on the Dreyfus affair (France 1894) and thought there'd probably be a wiki link, and yes there was, but there was also an Encyclopædia Britannica link, so I chose that. Encyclopædia Britannica is a free site and the article that I looked at didn't nominate an author, so I assume that it was written by the Britannica staff Editors. I don't know how limited the site is for information but as Britannica's reputation goes it's certainly a site that I'll refer to again. Anyone else used it? (The book I've started to read is Robert Harris' An Officer and a Spy which uses the techniques of a novel to retell the true story of the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal and miscarriage of justice that in the 1890s came to obsess France and ultimately the entire world. Zola supported Dreyfus and wrote J'accuse which is what I was interested in following up.) Last edited by Lynx-lynx; 12-01-2014 at 04:37 AM.