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href="#En_fran%C3%A7ais"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">En fran&ccedil;ais</span></a><ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9_des_r%C3%A8gles_pour_MusicBrainz"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">R&eacute;sum&eacute; des r&egrave;gles pour MusicBrainz</span></a><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#R%C3%A8gles_comment%C3%A9es_et_d%C3%A9taill%C3%A9es"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">R&egrave;gles comment&eacute;es et d&eacute;taill&eacute;es</span></a><ul><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="#R%C3%A8gles_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rales_de_casse"><span class="tocnumber">1.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">R&egrave;gles g&eacute;n&eacute;rales de casse</span></a><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="#R%C3%A8gles_de_capitalisation"><span class="tocnumber">1.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">R&egrave;gles de capitalisation</span></a><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="#Ponctuation"><span class="tocnumber">1.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Ponctuation</span></a></ul></ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#In_English"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">In English</span></a><ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Summary_of_Rules_for_MusicBrainz"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Summary of Rules for MusicBrainz</span></a><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Rationale_and_detailed_rules"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Rationale and detailed rules</span></a><ul><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Punctuation"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Punctuation</span></a></ul></ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Examples"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Examples</span></a><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></ul></div><h2><span id="En_fran.C3.A7ais"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="En_fran&ccedil;ais">En fran&ccedil;ais</span></h2><h3><span id="R.C3.A9sum.C3.A9_des_r.C3.A8gles_pour_MusicBrainz"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="R&eacute;sum&eacute;_des_r&egrave;gles_pour_MusicBrainz">R&eacute;sum&eacute; des r&egrave;gles pour MusicBrainz</span></h3><p>On ne met en capitale <b>que la premi&egrave;re lettre</b> d&#39;un titre ainsi que toutes les majuscules, c&#39;est-&agrave;-dire la premi&egrave;re lettre des noms, des institutions (comme l&#39;Union europ&eacute;enne) et les choix sp&eacute;cifiques de l&#39;auteur (<i>!eXistenZ</i> et <i>amaroK</i> mais <a class="extiw" href="https://musicbrainz.org/release/fc60c2d0-aec2-484d-b8e6-6b518e62c90c">Boucan d&#39;enfer</a>, voir les r&egrave;gles comment&eacute;es). <p><b>Cependant</b> si le titre <b>n&#39;est pas une phrase verbale</b> et commence par l&#39;un des sch&eacute;mas suivants, la premi&egrave;re lettre de chaque mot du sch&eacute;ma (et uniquement du sch&eacute;ma) est &eacute;galement mise en capitale&nbsp;: <ul><li>article <b>d&eacute;fini</b>, nom commun<li>article <b>d&eacute;fini</b>, adjectif, nom commun<li>article <b>d&eacute;fini</b>, adverbe, adjectif, nom commun<li>adjectif qualificatif, nom commun</ul><p>Rappel&nbsp;: les articles d&eacute;finis sont &laquo;&nbsp;le&nbsp;&raquo;, &laquo;&nbsp;la&nbsp;&raquo;, &laquo;&nbsp;l&#39;&nbsp;&raquo; et &laquo;&nbsp;les&nbsp;&raquo;. <h3><span id="R.C3.A8gles_comment.C3.A9es_et_d.C3.A9taill.C3.A9es"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="R&egrave;gles_comment&eacute;es_et_d&eacute;taill&eacute;es">R&egrave;gles comment&eacute;es et d&eacute;taill&eacute;es</span></h3><h4><span id="R.C3.A8gles_g.C3.A9n.C3.A9rales_de_casse"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="R&egrave;gles_g&eacute;n&eacute;rales_de_casse">R&egrave;gles g&eacute;n&eacute;rales de casse</span></h4><p>Pour simplifier, en fran&ccedil;ais, ne sont en majuscule que le premier caract&egrave;re d&#39;une phrase, d&#39;<b>un</b> des mots d&#39;une institution et de chaque mot d&#39;un nom. Toutes les autres lettres sont des minuscules. Un auteur est cependant libre d&#39;utiliser des majuscules de fa&ccedil;on sp&eacute;cifique comme le film <i>!eXistenZ</i> et le lecteur audio <i>amaroK</i>. <p>L&#39;usage est de noter les majuscules &agrave; l&#39;aide de capitales et les minuscules en bas de casse. Il est cependant courant de marquer un titre enti&egrave;rement en capitales, c&#39;est le cas pour le nom des pistes sur de tr&egrave;s nombreuses pochettes. Le contraire est &eacute;galement possible, ainsi sur la pochette de <a class="extiw" href="https://musicbrainz.org/release/fc60c2d0-aec2-484d-b8e6-6b518e62c90c">Boucan d&#39;enfer</a>, le titre est en bas de casse, y compris la majuscule initiale. <p>Les capitales prennent des accents. L&#39;usage de ne pas mettre d&#39;accent vient de ce que les capitales accentu&eacute;es n&#39;&eacute;taient pas pr&eacute;sentes sur les machines &agrave; &eacute;crire et les premi&egrave;res imprimantes dont le nombre de caract&egrave;res &eacute;taient limit&eacute;. Il suffit de consulter quelques ouvrages &agrave; la Biblioth&egrave;que nationale pour se convaincre que tous les ouvrages imprim&eacute;s avant 1920 utilisaient des capitales accentu&eacute;es. <p>Sur <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/MusicBrainz">MusicBrainz</a>, mettez toutes les majuscules en capitale, avec des accents si n&eacute;cessaire. <h4><span id="R.C3.A8gles_de_capitalisation"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="R&egrave;gles_de_capitalisation">R&egrave;gles de capitalisation</span></h4><p>Contrairement &agrave; l&#39;anglais, l&#39;&eacute;criture des titres ne poss&egrave;de pas de standard en fran&ccedil;ais. L&#39;usage est cependant de mettre certaines minuscules en capitale mais avec parcimonie, en fran&ccedil;ais les capitales ont en effet tendance &agrave; heurter l&#39;&oelig;il. Le consensus qui ressort des discussions sur Wikipedia est le suivant&nbsp;: <p><i><b>R&egrave;gle g&eacute;n&eacute;rale</b></i>&nbsp;: <b>seul le premier mot</b> d&#39;un titre d&#39;&oelig;uvre prend une majuscule (plus les noms,...) <p><i><b>Exception A</b></i>&nbsp;: si le titre ne constitue <b>pas une phrase verbale</b> et <b>commence</b> par un des sch&eacute;mas suivants, le premier caract&egrave;re de chaque mot du sch&eacute;ma est mis en capitale&nbsp;: <ol><li>article <b>d&eacute;fini</b>, substantif<li>article <b>d&eacute;fini</b>, adjectif, substantif<li>article <b>d&eacute;fini</b>, adverbe, adjectif, substantif<li>adjectif qualificatif, nom commun</ol><p><i><b>Exception B</b></i>&nbsp;: quand l&#39;auteur a choisi une typographie peu orthodoxe, il est pr&eacute;f&eacute;rable de la respecter <p><i><b>Exception C</b></i>&nbsp;: en cas de titre double, les principes pr&eacute;c&eacute;dents s&#39;appliquent &agrave; chaque partie <p>Deux cas restent ind&eacute;cis&nbsp;: <ul><li>que fait-on quand plusieurs adjectifs sont ant&eacute;pos&eacute;s&nbsp;? &Eacute;crit-on <i>la Grande et Belle Histoire de Calim&eacute;ro</i> ou <i>La grande et belle histoire de Calim&eacute;ro</i>&nbsp;? (Je pr&eacute;f&egrave;re la seconde mais il s&#39;agit d&#39;un go&ucirc;t personnel)<li>que fait-on lorsque le titre est un m&eacute;lange de deux langues&nbsp;? &Eacute;crit-on&nbsp;: <i>Femme like u</i>, <i>Femme Like U</i> ou <i>Femme like U</i> (chanson de K-Maro)&nbsp;?</ul><h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Ponctuation">Ponctuation</span></h4><p>?&nbsp;!&nbsp;;&nbsp;:&nbsp;&raquo; doivent &ecirc;tre pr&eacute;c&eacute;d&eacute;s d&#39;une espace ins&eacute;cable et suivi d&#39;une espace normale. &laquo;&nbsp;doit &ecirc;tre suivi d&#39;une espace ins&eacute;cable et pr&eacute;c&eacute;d&eacute; d&#39;une espace normale. <p>Sur <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/MusicBrainz">MusicBrainz</a>, vous pouvez utiliser des espaces normales &agrave; la place des espaces ins&eacute;cables. <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="In_English">In English</span></h2><h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Summary_of_Rules_for_MusicBrainz">Summary of Rules for MusicBrainz</span></h3><p>We put in upper case (<i>capitale</i>) <b>only the first letter</b> of a title and capitalize the first letter (<i>majuscules</i>) in names and institutions (such as <i>l&#39;Union europ&eacute;enne</i>), and if specified by the author (<code>eXistenZ</code> et <code>amaroK</code> but <a class="extiw" href="https://musicbrainz.org/release/fc60c2d0-aec2-484d-b8e6-6b518e62c90c">Boucan d&#39;enfer</a>, see French commented rules). <p><b>Moreover</b>, if the title is <b>not a verb phrase</b> and begins with one of the following schemas, the first letter of each word of the schema (and only of the schema) is also put in upper case: <ul><li><b>definite</b> article, noun<li><b>definite</b> article, adjective, noun<li><b>definite</b> article, adverb, adjective, noun<li>qualificative adjective, noun</ul><p>The definite articles are &quot;le&quot;, &quot;la&quot;, &quot;l&#39;&quot; and &quot;les&quot;. <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Rationale_and_detailed_rules">Rationale and detailed rules</span></h3><p>Unlike in English, there is no standard for French capitalization. The consensus from discussions on Wikipedia is the following: <p><i><b>General rule</b></i>: <b>only the first word</b> of a title is capitalized (plus names and the first word of institutions such as <i>Union europ&eacute;enne</i>) <p><i><b>Exception A</b></i>: if the title <i><b>begins with a definite article</b></i> (&quot;le&quot;, &quot;la&quot;, &quot;l&#39;&quot; or &quot;les&quot;) and <i><b>does not include a subject and predicate</b></i> (i.e. the title is not a sentence with a noun and verb) <ol><li>the first noun is capitalized<li>if an adjective is before the noun, both the first adjective and the first noun are capitalized<li>if an adverb and an adjective are before the noun, the first adverb, the first adjective and the first noun are capitalized<li>if the title begins with an adjective which is before a noun, the noun is also capitalized</ol><p><i><b>Exception B</b></i>: when the author has chosen a special writing, you should respect it <p><i><b>Exception C</b></i>: if the title is a double title (usually separated by &quot;ou&quot;), the previous rules are applied to both parts <p>Two cases are not defined: <ul><li>if there are several adjectives before the noun?<li>what about titles mixing two languages? Do we write: <i>Femme like u</i>, <i>Femme Like U</i> ou <i>Femme like U</i> (K-Maro&#39;s song)?</ul><p>By default, it is better to use few capitalization as it is the normal behaviour for French plain text (and don&#39;t use the former rules that gave Wikipedia as reference but set the exception as main rule). Note also that uppercase letters are accented, just as lowercase letters are. <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Punctuation">Punctuation</span></h4><p>Any of the following characters must be preceded by an unbreakable space, and followed by a normal space (unless they end a title):&nbsp;?&nbsp;!&nbsp;;&nbsp;:&nbsp;&raquo; <p>The character &laquo;&nbsp;must be followed by an unbreakable space, and preceded by a normal space (unless it begins a title). <p>On <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/MusicBrainz">MusicBrainz</a>, you can use normal spaces instead of unbreakable spaces. <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Examples">Examples</span></h2><p>(to be replaced by examples of music titles) <ul><li>Autant en emporte le vent (general rule)<li>Une saison en enfer (general rule, &quot;une&quot; is an indefinite article)<li>De l&rsquo;esprit des lois (general rule, &quot;de&quot; is not an article here but a preposition)<li>Mon oncle (general rule, &quot;mon&quot; is a possessive article)<li>La guerre de Troie n&#39;aura pas lieu (general rule, it is a verb phrase)<li>Les Mis&eacute;rables (exception A.1)<li>L&rsquo;Homme qui rit (exception A.1)<li>Les Liaisons dangereuses (exception A.1)<li>Le Bon, la brute et le truand (exception A.1)<li>Les Six Sonatines (exception A.2)<li>Le Petit Chaperon rouge (exception A.2)<li>Les Tr&egrave;s Riches Heures du duc de Berry (exception A.3)<li>Tristes Tropiques (exception A.4)<li>!eXistenZ (exception B)<li>Le Rouge et le Noir (exception C)<li>Le Barbier de S&eacute;ville ou la Pr&eacute;caution inutile (exception C)<li><a class="extiw" href="https://musicbrainz.org/recording/0d16bb0c-2e5c-41f8-8514-66cfef5013bd">Steinkerque ou Berceuse pour toi</a> de <a class="extiw" href="https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d2db2cdd-d3bb-4cab-a2e7-32826992469f">Julos Beaucarne</a> (exception C)</ul><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2><ul><li>The content of this page is derivated from <a class="external text" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_l&#39;usage_des_majuscules" rel="nofollow">De l&#39;usage des majuscules (On the use of capitalization)</a> from <a class="external text" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> and is available under the <a class="external text" href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html" rel="nofollow">GNU Free Documentation License</a>.<li><a class="external text" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Accents" rel="nofollow">Guide to write accents on uppercase letters (in French)</a> from <a class="external text" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a><li>A page in English written by an English speaker who describes the rules she learnt at school: <a class="external text" href="http://french.about.com/library/writing/bl-capitalizationoftitles.htm" rel="nofollow">http://french.about.com/library/writing/bl-capitalizationoftitles.htm</a></ul><center><table border="1" class="wikitable "><tbody><tr><th class="mbwiki-navbox-header" colspan="2"><a href="/doc/Style">Style</a></th></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Overview</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Principle">Style Principle</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Principle/Error_correction_and_artist_intent">Error correction &amp; Artist intent</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Old_style_practices">Old and/or outdated style practices</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Communication#Forums">Forums</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Proposals">How to propose style changes</a></td></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Title Style</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Titles">Titles</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Titles/OC_ReMix_series">OC ReMix series</a></td></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Entities</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Artist">Artist</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Artist/Sort_Name">Sort name</a>) &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Release_Group">Release Group</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Release">Release</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Recording">Recording</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Work">Work</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Series">Series</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Place">Place</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Event">Event</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Aliases">Aliases</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Artist_Credits">Artist credits</a></td></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Relationships</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Relationships">Relationships</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Relationships/URLs">URLs</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Relationships/URLs/Lyrics_whitelist">Lyrics Whitelist</a>) </td></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Classical</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Classical">Classical portal</a> &middot; <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/Style/Classical/Release/Title">Release title</a> &middot; <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/Style/Classical/Release/Artist">Release artist</a> &middot; <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/Style/Classical/Track/Title">Track titles</a> &middot; <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/Style/Classical/Track/Artist">Track artist</a> &middot; <a class="mw-redirect" href="/doc/Style/Classical/Recording/Artist">Recording artist</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Classical/Works">Works</a></td></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Special Cases/Misc.</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Unknown_and_untitled">Unknown and untitled entities</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Unknown_and_untitled/Special_purpose_artist">Special Purpose Artist</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Unknown_and_untitled/Special_purpose_label">Special Purpose Label</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Unknown_and_untitled/Special_purpose_track_title">Special Purpose Track Title</a>) &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases">Specific types of releases</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Pseudo-Releases">Pseudo-Releases</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Soundtrack">Soundtracks</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Theatre">Theatre</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Live_bootlegs">Live bootleg</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Broadcast_programs">Broadcast</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Audiobook">Audiobooks</a>, <a href="/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Remixes_and_mashups">Remixes and mashups</a>) &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></td></tr><tr class="mbwiki-navbox-row"><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowtitle"><b>Languages</b></td><td class="mbwiki-navbox-rowlinks"><a href="/doc/Style/Language/English">English</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Classical/Language/English">Classical</a>) &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Catalan">Catalan</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Chinese">Chinese</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Czech">Czech</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Danish">Danish</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Dutch">Dutch and Frisian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Estonian">Estonian</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Classical/Language/Estonian">Classical</a>) &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Finnish">Finnish</a> &middot; <a class="mw-selflink selflink">French</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/German">German</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Greek">Greek</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Hebrew">Hebrew</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Hungarian">Hungarian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Italian">Italian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Japanese">Japanese</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Latin">Latin</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Latvian">Latvian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Lithuanian">Lithuanian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Norwegian">Norwegian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Polish">Polish</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Portuguese">Portuguese</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Romanian">Romanian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Russian">Russian</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Slovak">Slovak</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Spanish">Spanish</a> (<a href="/doc/Style/Classical/Language/Spanish">Classical</a>) &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Swedish">Swedish</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Turkish">Turkish</a> &middot; <a href="/doc/Style/Language/Vietnamese">Vietnamese</a> &middot; 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