[WikiEN-l] vocabulary

[Angela]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/4 Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
>
>
>> The definition of a "mécène" is not so different from the definition of
>> a sponsor, though the French article hints that the "mecène" does that
>> for philanthropic reasons, whilst the sponsor does that for commercial
>> reasons.
>
> The traditional distinction would be "patron" ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage has an interlanguage link to
Mécénat. Not sure if the lack of a link the other way is deliberate or
not.

Angela