When Charles Plante was born on 18 December 1680, in Sainte-Famille, L'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada, his father, Claude Plante dit Deschatelets, was 27 and his mother, Marie Patenaude, was 20. His occupation is listed as curé de québec, directeur du séminaire de cette ville, chanoine et, en 1728, vicaire général du diocèse. in Québec, Canada, New France. He died on 20 March 1744, in Québec, Canada, New France, at the age of 63, and was buried in Québec, Canada, New France.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Normand, Marcel, Emile, Lucien, Andre, Gilles, Jacques, Armand, Fernand, Gaston, Pierre, Renald.
French (mainly Planté): topographic name from planté ‘planted’ (the past participle of the verb planter ‘to plant’), for someone living by an area of planted ground, a herb garden, shrubbery, or more specifically a vineyard.
French: topographic name or perhaps a nickname or a metonymic occupational name from plante ‘plant’, in Old French also ‘(nursery) plantation (of trees, bushes)’; or a habitational name from Plante, the name of several places in the southwestern part of France. Compare Laplante .
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