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  2. Simon (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Simon is a given name, from Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן Šimʻôn, meaning "listen" or "hearing". [1] It is also a classical Greek name, deriving from an adjective meaning "flat-nosed". [2]: 232 [3] In the first century AD, Simon was the most popular male name for Jews in Roman Judea. [4]

  3. Étienne - Wikipedia

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    Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. [1] An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne . Étienne , Etienne , Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to:

  4. Flag of France - Wikipedia

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    The horizontally striped red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands originally inspired the colour scheme used by the French revolutionaries after the French Revolution in 1789. [2] [3] Consequently, the French tricolour flag is derived from the cockade of France used during the French Revolution. These were circular rosette-like emblems attached ...

  5. Sean - Wikipedia

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    Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, [1] [2] is a masculine given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן ‎), Seán (anglicized as Shaun/Shawn/Shon) and Séan (Ulster variant; [3] anglicized Shane/Shayne), rendered John in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages.

  6. Esmé - Wikipedia

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    Originally a masculine name, Esme had become a feminine name by the mid-twentieth century. [2] The name was first popularised by Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (1542–1583), a French nobleman of Scottish origins who returned to Scotland for part of his life. However with regard to spelling (and pronunciation), on one of his surviving ...

  7. French Mexicans - Wikipedia

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    Most French Mexicans descend from immigrants and soldiers that settled in Mexico during the Second Mexican Empire, headed by Maximilian I of Mexico and masterminded by Emperor Napoleon III of France and the Mexican conservatives in the 1850’s to create a Latin empire in the New World (indeed responsible for coining the term or Amérique latine, or 'Latin America').

  8. French 75 (cocktail) - Wikipedia

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    French 75 is a cocktail made from gin, champagne, lemon juice, and sugar.It is also called a 75 Cocktail, or in French simply a Soixante Quinze (Seventy Five).. The drink dates to World War I, and an early form was created in 1915 at the New York Bar in Paris—later Harry's New York Bar—by barman Harry MacElhone.

  9. Réunion - Wikipedia

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    To break with this name, which was too attached to the Ancien Régime, the National Convention decided on 23 March 1793 [5] to rename the territory Réunion Island. ("La Réunion", in French, usually means "meeting" or "assembly" rather than "reunion".