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Artus de Penguern

French actor, screenwriter and director (1957-2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2865970 ↗
Source-derived summary

Artus de Penguern (13 March 1957 – 14 May 2013) was a French director, writer and actor of Breton descent.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Artus de Penguern” is french actor, screenwriter and director (1957-2013). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Artus, Penguern and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-03-13. For this dossier, Artus, Penguern and French is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “french actor, screenwriter and director (1957-2013)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2865970. VIAF identifies the subject as 68622897. The Library of Congress control number is no2003072862. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 2013.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Artus de Penguern”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Artus de Penguern primary sources, Artus de Penguern archive and Artus research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Artus de Penguern”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Artus de Penguern” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.