Wesley Britton's Blog - Posts Tagged "wikipedia"

Here’s a response to my review of Louis XVII Survived the Temple Prison: The DNA Proof from the author, Charles Louis de Bourbon;

Thank you for your words. You have the essence of the story but one item is very important to me as Wikipedia uses it wrongly, and an English book mentioned in Wikipedia started it.
Louis XVIII was dying and they wanted Louis XVII out of the way so they accused him of making and passing false money. The penalty if found guilty is 4 months. He was found not guilty. The one witness hung himself. The judge then jailed Louis XVII for three years for not producing a birth certificate. Be careful with Wikipedia-- every time I correct them, 10 people show up with the opposite view and majority wins.

Regards
Charles de Bourbon


For the record, I didn’t use Wikipedia for my review. I did forget one detail from Charles’ book, that about the jail sentence for Louis XVII not having a proper birth certificate. I certainly agree with Charles’ comments on Wikipedia. I’ve never fully trusted it.