Talk:Goust

present day Goust

Technically speaking (de jure) Goust still exists.--4.245.19.131 (talk) 18:58, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, technically and de jure, but it's only a vestige of Goust's former de facto independence. See below.70.130.199.233 (talk) 19:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Confirming story

I can confirm the Republic of Goust story. I've read several of the cited references, including the one by Dix in English (now on the web), and I visited Goust. There is an English-language reference to Goust as the world's smallest republic, in the reference book "A Handy Book of Curious Information" by Edwin S. Walsh, 1913, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, reprinted 1971, Gale Press, Detroit. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=7p4RAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22handy+book+of+curious%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Al0CQVPBPg&sig=C7L_BHUlvzmNOiegbrkKXI5NH_4&hl=en&ei=CTmoSa-SOJSWMtDu3NEC&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA732,M1 . There are numerous articles about the republic and its tiny "government" by its "ancients", in the newspaper archives of the state library at Pau, southern France. Formally, the residents of Goust have never formally recognised French sovereignty, although they obey French laws, pay taxes to the French commune of Laruns, etc. There is some very obscure technical "juridical" sense in which Goust is still a sovereign state, though it has no practical consequences in the daily life of the (few) people of Goust, and Goust has nothing even resembling "foreign relations." (I think Goust was not incorporated into Ossau or the County of Foix before those formerly-sovereign entities became part of France, and Goust was independently governed into the 19th Century.) It is a very, very sleepy and uneventful rural place, located on a tiny plateau perched partway up a mountain, up a winding narrow road off a highway crossing the Pyrenees Mountains at a place called Eaux Chaudes. There are some scenic pictures of Goust on the web.70.130.199.233 (talk) 19:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Fake

This article is a fake. No internet references. This part is not possible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Spanish_War_%281635%29 --Mediapinta (talk) 16:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

This article is a fake.

It should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.181.41.24 (talk) 23:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Disputed

I have worked out through some sources and seriously rewritten the corresponding article on :fr. This article on :en is obviously based on naive misinterpretations of existing sources, but I could only access those available on Google Books, not the US newspapers. There is clearly some cleaning required here also. French Tourist (talk) 14:10, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Considering this and the content of corresponding article, i added the inaccuracy template Typhoeus (talk) 21:12, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I added counter-evidence from the French article (Samazeuilh source), and rewrote some of the language to reflect that facts are in doubt. Goustien (talk) 05:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Currency: Franc?

Fake or not, the currency is likely to be the Euro, unless this tiny Republic still mints French Francs... All the information in this article, plus the content of the article in French, lead one to think that this entry is all very suspect. The French should be translated into English, or most of the content deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zapallon (talk • contribs) 14:58, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Goust was annexed by France long before France adopted the Euro. When it was an unrecognized state, Goust probably used the Franc, if any currency. Goustien (talk) 20:50, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Disputed

I've flagged the article as a hoax and will come back to it. The least that has happened here is that sources that may themselves have issues have been willfully misinterpreted. Happens a lot. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 14:15, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

I'll change the flag to disputed. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 17:44, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Since nothing about this country's independence can apparently be traced further back than the described misunderstandings from the early 19th century, and most of the history section deals with items "alledged" or "reportedly" by 19th century US newspaper sensation articles and a book with curious information, I'm going to remove some material from the article that are either unsourced or insufficiently sourced. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 01:42, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

The Discovery of France by Graham Robb

This 2007 book, written by an English Francophile, documents the "independent republic" story about Goust in the opening chapters: Culloty82 (talk) 21:42, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

References

Strongly doubting coffin story

Given the questions about the rest of this article, the unsourced coffin-chute story also seems extremely unlikely. I've followed up with the editor who added it, but if this is still unsourced in a few days I'd recommend just deleting the claim. 185.37.136.73 (talk) 19:57, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

I added a few citations. Some refer to a constructed chute while others mention lowering coffins by ropes down the mountain slope. Goustien (talk) 23:41, 22 July 2023 (UTC)