Friend @sabbamitta , I’m sorry i can’t help with that. But I wanted to check the original sources of some French sutta translations on SC also and couldn’t get through as well. I found this on SC:
Traduction de Christian Maës.
Utilisé avec l’autorisation du traducteur.
Tirée du site Internet: http://majjhima.perso.neuf.fr/.
On an unrelated topic, first, congratulations for the inauguration of the Tilorien monastery!
And nice website!
Secondly, I was wondering if you know if there was any effort made to locate and list translations of suttas or nikayas that were made in French thus far, whether online or free or not.
I’m sorry I can’t answer your question with certainty. But we rarely remove texts, and our Github history does not show any removed texts here. So it seems that this never existed: perhaps the link was broken from the start.
As for the dead links to the Maës translation, if anyone finds where he has moved them to, that would be great.
For an overview of the French translation situation, there is this, alas outdated, page:
I’m unable to find an alternative website to the Maës MN translations. In my search though I found this website, which provides a list of French translation not listed in the Github source:
Friend @Nibbanka have you checked the link you provided?! Because it does not seem to include anywhere the text itself of Maës MN translations, it only provides links to the same inaccessible address above! As do many other sources online.
Bhante, it looks as if I made you work unnecessarily here. My apologies! I should have made my inquiries in a different direction first: It seems that our supporter did the French translation of this verse. Chapeau!
So you are probably right that this sutta translation never existed on SC.
I am happy that my post still has a good side effect to make known more of the French resources.