On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/9/4 Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)yahoo.com>om>:
The definition of a "mécène" is not so
different from the definition of
a sponsor, though the French article hints that the "mecène" does that
for philanthropic reasons, whilst the sponsor does that for commercial
reasons.
The traditional distinction would be "patron" ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage has an interlanguage link to
Mécénat. Not sure if the lack of a link the other way is deliberate or
not.
Angela