When Jacques Lahaisse was christened on 30 August 1785, in Quebec, Canada, his father, Jean Baptiste Lahaise, was 35 and his mother, Marie Marguerite Ratel, was 28. He was buried in Quebec, Canada.
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form of James and Jacob . In French there is no distinction between a form corresponding to Jacob and a form corresponding to James. This is a perennially popular French given name, and Jacques or Jacques Bonhomme has been used (like John Bull in English) as a typification of the ordinary citizen. In Shakespeare's time it was also used as an English name, pronounced ‘jay-kwez’, as in the case of the melancholy character Jacques in As You Like It. Though rarely, if ever, now used in Britain it is found in the United States.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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