Re: I18n issue: French family names with "de"

From: Marion Gunn ([email protected])
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 09:52:30 EST


I've received a number of private retorts from Americans, concerning my
public remark in French below, to which the only response in English I can
offer is the following, said by my beloved compatriot GBS in 1933: "Even to
this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an
American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about
every human being on the face of the globe..."
mg

>>...
>> "de Tocqueville", if of noble origin,
>Indeed (at for least the author of _Democracy in America_).

Democracy?

En Am�rique du Nord?

Cela, c'est une impossibilit�!:-)
mg

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Marion Gunn
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