Voltaire & Baudouin I

[Dan Goncharoff]

He was described as the Tsar of all the Russias, although his official title
was "Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir,
Novgorod, Tsar of Kasan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia,
Tsar of Tauric Khersones, Tsar of Grusia, Lord of Pskov, and Grand Duke of
Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Finland, Prince of Esthonia,
Livonia, Courland and Semgallia, Samogitia, Bielostok, Karelia, Tver, Jugor,
Perm, Vyatka, Bulgaria, and other territories; Lord and Grand Duke of
Novgorod, Chernigov; Ruler of Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslav, Bielozero,
Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and all northern territories ;
Ruler of Iveria, Kartalinia, and the Kabardinian lands and Armenian
territories - hereditary Ruler and Lord of the Tcherkess and Mountain
Princes and others; Lord of Turkestan, Heir to the throne of Norway, Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsch, Oldenburg, and so forth, and so
forth, and so forth."

Just to pick nits...

DanG


On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> Maybe they ought to call him "King of All the Belgians"--as in "Czar of All
> the Russians"--to stress that the umbrella covers Walloon and Flem alike.
>  Except that I was never sure whether the original was really "Czar of All
> the Russias", which would turn Baudoin into the King of All the Belgiums",
> which sounds morphologically ill-formed.
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> LH
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> On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
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> > Wilson, haven't you ever felt like picking a nit? But, not so fast! He is
> > called King of the Belgians in English because that is what he is called
> in
> > French and Flemish. Seems to be a Belgian thing, but when I lived there
> in
> > the 70's I got no good answers to my questions about "Belgians" vs.
> > "Belgium".
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