Here the two fold story of the French nouns that were originally the last name of the person who invented them:<\/p>\n
Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUn Amphitryon\u201d<\/strong> can be used in a very formal language as \u201ca host who receives guests for diner\u201d. This name became popular after the success of a Moliere play from the XVIIth century, whose main character was called this way.<\/p>\n \u201cUn bar\u00e8me\u201d<\/strong> is a scoring scale explaining the details of the math to applied in order to get a specific result. This word comes from the name of the mathematician Fran\u00e7ois Barr\u00eame.<\/p>\n \u201cUne b\u00e9chamel\u201d<\/strong> is a white sauce used in traditional French cuisine. The cook who invented it was the Maitre D of the King Louis XIV,\u00a0 Louis de Bechameil.<\/p>\n \u201cUn bottin\u201d<\/strong> is a phone directory in French. This noun comes from the name of the French statistician who put together the first historical list of revolutionaries during the French Revolution.<\/p>\n \u201cLe Braille\u201d<\/strong> is a reading and writing code for blind people. It was invented by Louis Braille in the XIXth century.<\/p>\n \u201cLe charvet\u201d<\/strong> is a silk fabric that was named in honor of the iconic shirt maker Edouard Charvet. The Charvet family has been tailoring customized luxury clothing since the Napoleon Empire period. Its only store is located Place Vendome and its regular clients are kings, princes and demanding luxury garment lovers.<\/p>\n \u201cChauvin\u201d<\/strong> is a common adjective used to speak about somebody who is fan of his local place, whether it is his country, his city or his area: a \u201cchauvinist\u201d. The origin of the noun is a Napoleonic soldier Nicolas CHAUVIN who was a great fan of the Emperor Napoleon.<\/p>\n \u201cLa Reine Claude\u201d<\/strong> is the name given to a specific French plum. This was the name of \u201cClaude de France,\u201d spouse of King Francois the 1st. He gave the plum his wife\u2019s name because she was crazy about this small juicy fruit from Lorraine.<\/p>\n \u201cUn Don Juan\u201d<\/strong> is used to describe a selfish and disrespectful womanizer. The origin of the noun is the same named Moliere play character.<\/p>\n \u201cUn Gavroche\u201d<\/strong> is the name we given to a Parisian underprivileged kid. Originally this was the name of a character of Les Miserables, the must read French literature basic by Victor Hugo.<\/p>\n \u201cUn Gibus\u201d<\/strong> is the name we give to a top that can be flattened. We also call it \u201cslam hat\u201d. The French hat maker who invented it in 1834 is Antoine Gibus.<\/p>\n \u201cDes Godillots\u201d<\/strong> is a slang name used for shoes. This noun comes from the name of Alexis Godillot who was the shoe maker for the French military during the XIXth century.<\/p>\n \u201cUn Guignol\u201d<\/strong> is the noun used to describe somebody who would act like a class clown. Somebody who is not serious. Originally Guignol was the name of the main character of a famous funny and sarcastic puppet show created in the city of Lyon in 1808.<\/p>\n Stay tuned for Part 2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here the two fold story of the French nouns that were originally the last name of the person who invented them: Part 1: \u201cUn Amphitryon\u201d can be used in a very formal language as \u201ca host who receives guests for diner\u201d. 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