[WikiEN-l] vocabulary

[Florence Devouard]

Angela wrote:
> 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


Hmmm. No. That's not the same. I updated the link so that it now goes to 
[[fr:patronage]] :-)

ant