Angela wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/4 Florence Devouard Anthere9@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