Fouquet (Foucquet) is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bernard Foucquet
Bernard ('' Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname.
The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...
, sculptor active in Sweden
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Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684–1761), French general and statesman
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Christophe Fouquet
Christophe Fauquet (born May 5, 1975) is a French bobsledder who competed from 1996 to 2006. His best Bobsleigh World Cup finish was sixth at Lake Placid in February 2005.
Fouquet finished 24th in the two-man event at the 2005 FIBT World Champio ...
(born 1974), French bobsledder
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Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne
Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne (1560 in La Flèche – 7 December 1616) was a French chef who became an important statesman in the service of Henry IV.
Biography
Guillaume Fouquet was born into a bourgeois family in La Flèche (France, Loire ...
(1560–1616), French chef and statesman
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Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from ...
(1420–1481), French painter
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Louis Charles Armand Fouquet (1693–1747), French general
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Nicolas Fouquet
Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. He had a glittering career, and acquired enormous wealth ...
(1615–1680), French superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV of France
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Pierre-Claude Foucquet
Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694 – February 13, 1772) was a French organist and harpsichordist.
Foucquet was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Foucquet and Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was born into a family of musicians. At age 18, he was appointed as ...
(1694–1772), French organist and harpsichordist
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Thierry Fouquet
Thierry is a French male given name, derived from the Germanic "Theodoric". It is the cognate of German "Dietrich" and " Dieter", English Terry, Derek and Derrick, and of various forms in other European languages. It is also a surname.
People wi ...
, the head of
Opéra National de Bordeaux
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names.
"Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most ...
in 1996-2016
See also
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Fouquet's
Fouquet's Paris is a historic high-end brasserie restaurant in Paris, France. It is located at 99 Avenue des Champs-Élysées and is part of Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris. The menu, designed in collaboration with Chef Pierre Gagnaire, con ...
, a Parisian restaurant
NOTE: Many immigrants to America anglicized their surname to either
Fuqua
Fuqua is an American surname, possibly an Americanization of the French surname Fouquet.
Notable people
* Henry L. Fuqua (1865–1926), Governor of Louisiana
* Samuel G. Fuqua (1899–1987), US Navy seaman and Medal of Honor recipient
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or
Fuquay upon arrival in America.
References
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French-language surnames
