Gallica and the olympic class (in french)

[Aurélien WOLFF]

Hello, for those who can read french, gallica has a bunch of period french press reports on the olympic class (and the lusitania as well). Here, the navigazette from june 1911 talk about the olympic entering service: Navigazette | 1911-06-22 | Gallica

 

[Dave Gittins]

I have some operatic French and some from the world of cycling. I can tell Le Tour from La Tour. I understand much of the article. What I notice is that the ship's dimensions are wrong. They even include the notorious 66,000 tons displacement. The details were probably copied from a British source. It shows the danger of relying on unchecked sources.