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Robert Girardet

French skipper (1893–1977)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3435234 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert William Girardet (11 March 1893 – 1 March 1977) was a sailor from France, who represented his country at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Le Havre, France. Girardet took the bronze in the 8 Metre.

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"Robert Girardet Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2015.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Robert Girardet” as french skipper (1893–1977). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1977, 1924, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-05-11. The account is most persuasive where Robert, Girardet and French can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as french skipper (1893–1977). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3435234. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1977, 1924 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Girardet” 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.