Dealing with compounded article prefixes when sorting

Question

Say you are sorting a list of movie or book titles. You'll often want to pull certain articles from the front:

What if you have a title like L'École des Facteurs. How would this be written?

M42 · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-10 15:43:22Z

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I would say:

École des Facteurs, L'

answered Jan 10 '12 at 15:43

M42
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	Thanks. Does anyone have a source, maybe just a prominent site that does it this way? – miracle2k Jan 12 '12 at 11:53
	@miracle2k: In an index the article is always placed at the end after a comma. Here the article is `L'` not `La`. See some information at theleme.enc.sorbonne.fr/cours/edition_epoque_moderne/… – M42 Jan 12 '12 at 12:16

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