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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 ]
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 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 ...
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.
Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin (Baton Rouge, Boise, Des Moines, Juneau, Montgomery, Montpelier, Pierre, Richmond, Saint Paul) - not even counting Little Rock (originally "La Petite Roche") or Cheyenne (a French rendering of a Lakota word). Fifteen state names are either French words / origin (Delaware, New Jersey ...
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
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″.
a location where troops assemble prior to a battle. While this figurative meaning also exists in French, the first and literal meaning of point d'appui is a fixed point from which a person or thing executes a movement (such as a footing in climbing or a pivot). porte-cochère an architectural term referring to a kind of porch or portico-like ...