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A fact from Œil du prince appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Italian Renaissance architect and stage designer Nicola Sabbatini discovered that the l'œil du prince ("the prince's eye") has the best perspective of the stage of any seat in a theater's audience?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/December.

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"...in his famous treaty published in 1638" doesn't sound right. I'd take a treaty to be only an agreement between soverign states. Shouldn't it be "treatise"? RivGuySC 18:57, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are right, sorry. --R.Sabbatini 12:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-standard lettering[edit]

What's an "Œ"? What is it called? How is it pronounced? I thought I had seen all the accents and unusual letters that French had to offer, but I have never seen this before. LordAmeth 00:00, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The way to write is "oe" but MediaWiki automatically translated it to the corresponding French phoneme. --R.Sabbatini 12:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In written French it is usually just "OE" but the 'official' spelling uses the ligature Œ (see Œ, called "e dans l'o" [e in the o] in French). In French this letter is pronounced a close-mid front rounded vowel or an open-mid front rounded vowel. --Schzmo 17:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]