Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,704 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
French name. French names typically consist of one or multiple given names, and a surname. Usually one given name and the surname are used in a person's daily life, with the other given names used mainly in official documents. Middle names, in the English sense, do not exist. Initials are not used to represent second or further given names.
Amélie (given name) Amicie. Anaïs (given name) Anastasie. Andrea. Andréanne. Andrée (given name) Andrée-Anne. Angèle.
Women in the Middle Ages. An agricultural scene from the 14th-century English Luttrell Psalter, with a woman milking sheep and two women carrying vessels on their heads [1] Women in the Middle Ages in Europe occupied a number of different social roles. Women held the positions of wife, mother, peasant, artisan, and nun, as well as some ...
Chalon family (2 C, 1 P) House of Châtillon (30 P) Clary family (4 P) Clermont-Tonnerre (2 C, 1 P) Colbert family (6 P) House of Coligny (14 P) Conradines (1 C, 20 P) Constant de Rebecque (6 P) House of Courcillon (3 P)
Vivian. Vivian (and variants such as Vivien and Vivienne) is a given name, and less often a surname, derived from a Latin name of the Roman Empire period, masculine Vivianus and feminine Viviana, which survived into modern use because it is the name of two early Christian female martyrs as well as of a male saint and bishop.
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
During the medieval period Basque names were written broadly following the spelling conventions of the official languages of the day, usually Spanish and French. The main differences lie in the way the relatively large number of Basque sibilants are spelled. These are especially hard to represent using French spelling conventions, so on the ...