Editing Martinet (section)

==Person==
===In French===
The term was used for an external pupil of a ''collège'' (i.e., a kind of French high school, especially Catholic). [[Jean Bodin]], quoting the examination of three witches by [[Paolo Grillandi]] of Castiglione at the Castello San Paolo, [[Spoleto]], in his [[Jean Bodin#De la démonomanie des sorciers|writings about demonology]] records that the witches referred to the Devil as ''Master Martinet'' (''Maître Martinet''), or the ''Little Master'' (''Petit maître'').{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}{{clarification needed|}October 2018|reason=What is the relevance of this to the definition?|date=October 2018|post-text=(see [[Talk:Martinet#Clarification needed|talk]]) }}

===In English===
In English, the term ''martinet'' usually refers not to the whip but to those who might use it: those who demand strict adherence to set [[wiktionary:rule|rules]] and mete out punishment for failing to follow them. This sense of the word is reputedly [[Eponym|derived from the name of]] [[Jean Martinet]], Inspector General of the army of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]], such that its relationship to the word's earlier sense is merely coincidental.

In an extended sense, a martinet is any person who believes strict adherence to rules and [[etiquette]] is paramount. Martinets often use etiquette and other rules as an excuse to trump [[ethics]], to the point that etiquette loses its ethical ground. In 1977, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine famously referred to the Ugandan dictator [[Idi Amin]] as a "strutting martinet".<ref name=time>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070902230955/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918762-1,00.html "Amin:The Wild Man of Africa"], ''Time Magazine'', 28 February 1977</ref>