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Louis Bertorelle

basketball player (1932–2012)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ3261247 ↗
Source-derived summary

Louis Bertorelle (5 August 1932 – 27 February 2012) was a French basketball player. He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2008.

National team career

Bertorelle played at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games, with the senior French national basketball team.

Editorial summary

“Louis Bertorelle” enters the record as basketball player (1932–2012). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Louis, Bertorelle and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 2012, 2008, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Louis, Bertorelle and basketball.
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Why this record matters

“Louis Bertorelle” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Louis, Bertorelle and basketball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3261247. The first chronological checks are 1932, 2012, 2008 and 1960.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis Bertorelle” 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.