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Dupuis is a French noble family name meaning keepers of the water, </ref> meaning "of / from a (house neighbouring) a well" (du puits). [ 1 ] People with this name
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Fontaine is a French topographic surname for someone who lived near a spring or well. It was originally found in northern and central France. It was originally found in northern and central France. Variants of Fontaine include Fountain , La Fontaine , Lafontaine, and de La Fontaine . [ 1 ]
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
Some French last names include a prefix called a particle (French: particule), a preposition or article at the beginning of the name. The most widespread of these are de (meaning "of"), le or la ("the"), and Du or de La ("of the"). A common misconception is that particules indicate some noble or feudal origin of the name, but this is not always ...
Ballard (a common French surname) Belfonte; Bellevue ("Beautiful View") Boise City (from Boisé, "Wooded") Cache; Chouteau (named for Auguste Pierre Chouteau, fur trader born in Upper Louisiana of French descent; Delaware County; Durant (The French surname of the town's founding French/Choctaw family)
Fournier is a French surname describing the occupation of a baker who tends the fire of an oven or furnace, and is derived from the Latin furnarius. [1] [2] Notable people with the surname include: Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher; Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier), French writer; Alphonse Fournier (1893–1961), Canadian politician