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  2. LaRue - Wikipedia

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    LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la. [1] It literally means "the street" in French. [ 2 ]

  3. De la Rue (surname) - Wikipedia

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    De la Rue, De La Rue or Delarue is a surname of French origin meaning "of the Street". Notable people with the surname include: Charles de la Rue (1643–1725), noted orator of the Society of Jesus in France, poet and professor; Edgar Aubert de la Rüe (1901–1991), French geographer, geologist, traveller and photographer

  4. LaRue (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    LaRue, Larue or La Rue is a surname of French origin and less frequently a given name. LaRue, Larue or La Rue may also refer to: Places in the United States.

  5. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    The translation comes from explorer Zebulon Pike.) [141] Sublette, Kansas (named for William Sublette) [136]: 189 Toulon (most likely named for the French city) [141] Verdigris River [141] Wyandotte County, French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe who were also known as the Hurons by the French in Canada

  6. LaRue family - Wikipedia

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    The LaRue family and its descendants trace their ancestry back to the French Huguenot Abraham LeRoux, who sailed to America with his family around 1680 as part of a mass exodus from France. According to LaRue descendant and author of Six Generations of LaRue and Allied Families , Otis M. Mather, several attempts to trace Abraham's family to a ...

  7. Street Without Joy - Wikipedia

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    Street Without Joy or La Rue Sans Joie was the name given by troops of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps to the stretch of Route 1 from Huế to Quảng Trị during the First Indochina War. [ 1 ]

  8. Leroux (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Leroux (mostly northwestern France [1]), LeRoux (American spelling), Le Roux (mostly Brittany, [2] as a translation of Breton Ar Rouz or Ar Ruz) or Roux (mostly southeastern France, [3] as a translation of Occitan Ros) is a surname of French origin meaning "red-haired" or "red-skinned" and may also come in certain cases (e.g. with the spelling Le Roux) from Breton Ar Roue meaning ″The King″.

  9. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche