Talk:Fouday

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The modern official grouping of several villages under the new name Ban de la Roche was very temporary. The name Ban de la Roche nevertheless remains relevant for the Ancien Régime seigneurie and Comté. I would write Ban de la Roche rather than Ban-de-la-Roche (it is several words) ; it grouped the villages of Rothau, Wildersbach, Neuviller, Waldersbach, Fouday, Bellefosse, Belmont, Solbach.

I would suggest American Wikipedia to put the light on the whole of the seigneurie ; it was culturally a whole ; you could be born in Fouday, baptized in Walderbach, married in Rothau. I think Fouday in itself does not have muxh interest for the American reader, but Le Ban de la Roche as a whole clearly has much.

As a whole, Le Ban de la Roche (the ancient régime seigneurie, not the temporary modern township) has a certain importance for Americans :

• immigrants as early as 1636 on ship fr:Princess Augusta (navire)

• many immigrants after ; many American descendants in Pensylvania, Ohio, Ilinois ; an example : I read that the name Gockley is the 40th American name in number ; well, Gockley (Cocklin, Gagelet, etc) is a englishisation of the bandelarochian name Caquelin (a family arrived in 1636 on the Princess Augusta)

• an Amish place (:fr:Censes anabaptistes)

It has an interesting culture : witchcraft trials, permanent religious dissidence,minister J. F. Oberlin I have difficulties to express myself in English Look at all this --Nicolas Baeteman (talk) 07:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

It's an interesting subject but also, as you write, a moderately 'big' subject. I translated a lot of the Fouday entry into English, and as you'll have noticed I included a link to Ban de la Roche (the French entry) in the second para. And now (thank you...) I've taken out the hyphens. But without a lot more background knowledge (or reading) than I have time for any time soon I'd not really be competent to translate Ban de la Roche for anglophone readers. There are thousands of entries in French and German (and others which I don't understand so well) wikipedias that cry out to be translated into English, but logically one tries mostly to start with the simpler ones! But maybe someone reading this with an existing deeper background knowledge may be tempted to kick off a draft translation of Ban de la Roche. Or...? Saluts Charles01 (talk) 07:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)