When Marguerite Madeleine Lucienne BOURGEOIS was born on 28 August 1902, in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France, her father, Samuel, Louis Félix BOURGEOIS, was 49 and her mother, Catherine Louise Charlotte POINTEZ, was 44. She had at least 5 sons with George William Le Petit. She died on 31 March 1993, in her hometown, at the age of 90.
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In December of 1905 a law was passed that separated church and state. It made it so that prayer could not be said before a parliamentary meeting or in schools. It also made it so that working on Sunday was legalized.
On July 31, 1914 French socialist leader, Jean Jaurés was murdered. A few days later Germany starts plans to invade France. Britain then started to occupy France. The battles that took place in France were First Battle of the Marne, Gallipoli, Jutland, Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme, and the Brusilov Offensive. 25 percent of the allied military deaths that happened in World War I were from France. Between civilian and military deaths France lost 1,697,800 people and 4,266,000 were wounded.
Second World War. Defeat and occupation by Germany. General de Gaulle leads the Resistance from London and Algiers. Allied victory came on May 8, 1945.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Marcel, Emile, Alphonse, Armand, Camille, Gaston, Monique, Pierre, Lucien, Michel, Normand.
French: from bourgeois ‘burgher’ (from Old French burgeis, from burc ‘fortified town’), a status name for an inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a fortified town (see Bourg ). Compare Lebourgeois and also Boss , Burgess , and Bushway .
History: Jacques Bourgeois from France married Jeanne Trahan in Acadia c. 1643. Pierre Bourgeois from Poligny in Jura, France, married Marie-Louise Cléroux in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, QC, in 1753.
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