Please don’t
shoot me for reentering such a touchy area but, I need comment on the following:
“Politically Artois
had only been French control for less than a century and a half and that period
had ended 330 years previously.” [context is a discussion of a 1569
tax roll of
I read this sentence
and wondered whether the first ‘had been’ should have been ‘was.’
Scott Catledge
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