French Placenames
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Examples:
Arques - byname d’Arques, from 16th C Rouen. Arqueus - loc. des Arqueus, from 1292 Paris.
- from DRAFT: Bynames in Medieval France - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/frenchbynames.pdf
Sources:
Baluze, Étienne. Histoire Généalogique de la Maison d'Auvergne. Vol. 1. Paris: Chez Antoine Dezallier. 1708.[[1]]
de Chauvigné dit Jaillot, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Renou. Recherches Critiques, Historiques et Topographiques sur la Ville de Paris. Vol. 2. Paris: self-published. 1775. [[2]]
Dauzat & Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, French & European Publications, Incorporated, 1978. (Can get snippet views of the separate works by Dauzat and Rostaing.) [[3]] .
Delisle, Léopold. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France. Vol. 9. Paris: Victor Palmé. 1874.[[4]]
Historic Cities: France - [[5]] (links to old maps and woodcuts)
La Guide des Chemins de France by Charles Estienne, a 16th century French geography book found online. ( [[6]] )
_Mémoires: contenans l'histoire des rois Louys XI et Charles VIII_, Volume 3, with a date of 1477; since the same entry has a number of examples of <Jehan>, and <Messire>, which are not standard modern forms, I'd be happy to say that <Aurilhac> has not been modernized either. (see [[7]]).
The church records for Aurillac, dating from 1567, can be found at [[8]].
Maps:
- IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE - FRANCE: GENERAL MAPS OF FRANCE - @http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/mapsmain.html
- Historical Maps of France - @http://www.edmaps.com/html/france.html
- A Medieval Atlas: Maps of France - @http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/blatfrandex.htm
- David Rumsey: Europe: France - @http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search/where/France?q=World_Area="Europe"+LIMIT:RUMSEY~8~1,&sort=Pub_Date,Pub_List_No_InitialSort
Period Places:
Chierebourg http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_14_e_iv_f014v
Precedents:
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[9]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[10]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
From the <month> <year> LoAR: