Wikipedia:Babel

This user comes from France.

fr Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.

en-4 This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

This user is interested in the History of France.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows Vista.

Hello, I am Matthieu. I am a native resident of South-western France, living in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, part of Medieval Gascony and ancient (real one) Aquitaine. My family finds its origin in various places of France including Normandy and Brittany, and I was born in Toulouse.

I have got several different points of interests, first an most obvious is medieval history.

I consider myself level 3 in English skills but Oxford's test ranked me 170/200 and the European Speed one between level 4 and 5 which would be closer to Wikipedia's level 4.

I am an administrator on a forum on modern architecture and urbanism: skyscrapercity.com [1]. It shouldn't be too hard to find me there.

I am playing Warhammer 40,000 and you can already find me on some forums.

Largely wrote by me, but of course I don't claim exclusivity

• Angevin Empire
• Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
• Tour Sans Fins
• Laguiole knife
• Requiem Chevalier Vampire

If you need information from these books don't hesitate to ask.

In French

• Guerres et Civilisations: De l'Assyrie à l'ère contemporaine - Gérard Chailland. Editions Odile Jacob.
• Les Celtes - Comité des Amis du Palazzo Grassi. Editions EDDL
• L'Empire des Plantagenêt - Martin Aurell. Editions Tempus
• Noblesse de l'Espace Plantagenêt (1154 - 1124) - Table ronde tenue à Poitiers. Editions Civilisations Médiévales. (this one also has parts in English)
• Les Templiers: Une Chevalerie Chrétienne au Moyen Age - Alain Demurger. Editions Seuil
• Chronologie des Hospitaliers: Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte - Maurice Caron. Editions Atlantica
• Saint Louis - Gérard Sivéry. Editions Tallandier
• Philipe le Bel - Silvie le Clech. Editions Tallandier
• La Grande Armée. Editions Trésor du patrimoine

In English

• The Next Superpower?: The Rise of Europe and Its Challenge to the United States - Rockwell A. Schnabel & Francis X. Rocca. Editions Rowman and Littlefield.
• Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report - Francesco Carotta.
• The Angevin Empire - John Gillingham. Editions Arnold.
• The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066 - 1284 - David Carpenter. Editions Penguin.
• Capetian France 987 - 1328 - Elizabeth M. Hallam & Judith Everard. Editions Longman.
• God's War: A New History of the Crusades - Chrystopher Tiermann. Editions Penguin - Allan Lane.
• The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300 - c.1450 - Christopher Allmand. Editions Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.
• The Albigensian Crusade - Jonathan Sumption. Editions FF.
• The Norman Kingdom of Sicily - Donald Matthew. Editions Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
• Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages - K.W. Nicholls. Editions Lilliput.
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 - Paul Kennedy. Editions Fontana Press.
• From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism & the Armenian Genocide - Taner Akçam. Editions Zed Books.
• A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 - Alistair Horne. Editions NYRB.
• A Few Bloody Noses: The American Revolutionary War - Robert Harvey. Editions Robinson.
• The American Civil War: The Mighty Scourge of War - Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen D. Engle, Robert K. Krick & Joseph T. Glatthaar. Editions Osprey.
• The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Gregory Fremont-Barnes & Todd Fished. Editions Osprey

In French

• Communication, Modems, Télématique Editions Micro Application
• Dictionnaire d'Informatique - M. Ginguay and A. Lauret. Editions Masson
• TCP/IP sous Windows NT 4 Editions ENI (Microsoft certified)
• OS/2 2.0: DOS et Windows sous OS/2, Gestionaire de Presentation, Multitache, HPFS..." Editions Micro-Application
• Architecture des réseaux informatiques tome 1: Les Outils de Communication - G. Pujolle & E. Horlait. Editions Eyrolles (I lack the second tome)
• OS/2 2.0 Editions Micro-Application
• Oracle 10g Administration - Olivier Heurtel. Editions ENI
• Apache Version 2: Installation, Administration et Sécurisation - Mikael Pirio. Editions ENI
• Cisco: Installation, Configuration et Maintenance de Réseaux - Djilali Seba. Editions ENI
• Windows Server 2003: Planifier et Optimiser une Infrastructure Réseau - Anne Guillon. Editions ENI

In English

• Novell's guide to NetWare LAN Analysis - Laura Chappell. Editions Novell Press
• PowerPC Microprocessor, Architecture, Software, Tools, Applications Editions Design & Elektronik
• Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL Editions Oracle

In French

• L'art Gothique: Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture - various authors. Editions Köneman
• Qu'est ce que l'architecture aujourd'hui?. Editions Beaux Arts
• Fléxible: Une Architecture pour repondre au changement - Robert Kronenburg. Editions Norma
• L'art Baroque: Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture - various authors. Editions Place des Victoires