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Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,773 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the early modern period, colleges were established by various Catholic orders, notably the Oratorians.In parallel, universities further developed in France. Louis XIV's Ordonnance royale sur les écoles paroissiales of 13 December 1698 obliged parents to send their children to the village schools until their 14th year of age, ordered the villages to organise these schools, and set the wages ...
Pages in category "Surnames of French origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 469 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
French statesman Charles de Gaulle's surname may not be a traditional French name with a toponymic particule, but a Flemish Dutch name that evolved from a form of De Walle meaning "the wall". In the case of nobility, titles are mostly of the form [title] [ particle ] [name of the land]: for instance, Louis, duc d'Orléans ("Louis, duke of ...
Fort Machault (named for Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, French Minister of the Marine at the time of the fort's construction) Fort Presque Isle; Laporte (named for John Laporte, former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives) Ligonier (named for Field Marshal John Ligonier, a British noble and officer with French ancestry)
François Martin, Governor for French territories in India; Pierre Christoph Le Noir, Governor for French territories in India; Pierre Benoît Dumas, Governor for French territories in India; Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.
Emigrants primarily settled in London and Soho, the latter had grown into a thriving French cultural district, complete with French hotels and cuisine, although it had long been a haven for French exiles, housing many thousands of Frenchmen from the last mass migration which occurred in reaction to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. [7]
Pages in category "French masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 345 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .