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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.
Alexandre (given name) Alexis (given name) Alfred (name) Allain. Alphonse (given name) Alvin (given name) Amable. Amédée. Anatole (given name)
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 .
The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the Norman and Angevin regions ...
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)
Norman toponymy. Placenames in Normandy have a variety of origins. Some belong to the common heritage of the Langue d'oïl extension zone in northern France and Belgium; this is called "Pre-Normanic". Others contain Old Norse and Old English male names and toponymic appellatives.
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 ...
List of French monarchs. From top; left to right: Robert I, Hugh Capet, Louis IX, Francis I, Henry IV, Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Napoleon III. The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870) France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in ...