[Release] Bel Ami, by Guy de Maupassant

[Alex Cabal]

This ebook was produced by Gĩtahi John. Thanks Gĩtahi!

Ebook URL:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/guy-de-maupassant/bel-ami/vizetelly-co

GitHub URL:
https://github.com/standardebooks/guy-de-maupassant_bel-ami_vizetelly-co

[David]

As I maintain my "SE Translators Look-up", I see this is our second Vizetelly production. Do we want to normalize/standardize the translator name, though?

Bel Ami has "Vizetelly & Co." Previously, The Lerouge Case used "Vizetelly and Company".

I know we want to standardize author names; do we likewise care about translation attribution?

[Vince]

This is our third Vizetelly production. Fourth if you count Ernest Alfred, who is credited individually on Zola’s His Masterpiece.

There was a somewhat contentious discussion about this regarding The Lerouge Case; it should have been Vizatelly and Co. there as well, but Alex changed it because we already had another Vizetelly and Company in the corpus (Nikolai Gogol’s shorts). Based on that I would say that it should be standardized to “and Company,” but now, as then, it’s Alex’s call.

[Alex Cabal]

Thanks for pointing that out, I've standardized it to "and company"

On 5/18/26 3:11 PM, David wrote:
> As I maintain my "SE Translators Look-up", I see this is our second
> Vizetelly production. Do we want to normalize/standardize the translator
> name, though?
>

> Bel Ami <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/guy-de-maupassant/bel-ami/
> vizetelly-co> has "Vizetelly & Co." Previously, The Lerouge Case
> <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/emile-gaboriau/the-lerouge-case/
> vizetelly-and-company> used "Vizetelly and Company".

>
> I know we want to standardize author names; do we likewise care about
> translation attribution?
>
> On Monday, 18 May 2026 at 20:26:42 UTC+1 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> This ebook was produced by Gĩtahi John. Thanks Gĩtahi!
>
> Ebook URL:
> https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/guy-de-maupassant/bel-ami/

> vizetelly-co <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/guy-de-maupassant/
> bel-ami/vizetelly-co>
>
> GitHub URL:
> https://github.com/standardebooks/guy-de-maupassant_bel-
> ami_vizetelly-co <https://github.com/standardebooks/guy-de-
> maupassant_bel-ami_vizetelly-co>
>
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