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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 ]
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 ...
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″.
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
The translation comes from explorer Zebulon Pike.) [140] Sublette, Kansas (named for William Sublette) [135]: 189 Toulon (most likely named for the French city) [140] Verdigris River [140] Wyandotte County, French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe who were also known as the Hurons by the French in Canada
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The final week of the NFL regular season is here. Nearly four months after the Chiefs and Ravens played a thrilling opening game, we're just over a week away from the start of the postseason.. The ...
Chevilly-Larue (French pronunciation: [ʃəviji laʁy] ⓘ) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.3 km (5.8 mi) from the center of Paris . Name