Forbin is a French surname.
Members of an ancient
Provence
Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the France–Italy border, Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterrane ...
family (which now has many branches, the principal ones being the ''Forbin des Lasarts'' branch and the ''Forbin Janson'' branch) bearing the name include:
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Palamède de Forbin (died 1508), founder of the house
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Toussaint de Forbin-Janson (1625–1713), called the ''cardinal de Janson'', bishop
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Claude de Forbin
Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733) was a French Navy officer, nobleman and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led a diplomatic mission to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese ...
(1656-1733), French naval commander
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Count de Forbin, officer of the French Navy who served under Suffren during the War of American Independence
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Jacques II de Forbin-Janson
Jacques or Jacq are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over one hundred identified noble families related t ...
(1680–1741),
Archbishop of Arles
The former French Catholic Archbishopric of Arles had its episcopal seat in the city of Arles, in southern France. At the apex of the delta (Camargue) of the Rhone River, some 40 miles from the sea, Arles grew under Liburnian, Celtic, and Punic in ...
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Joseph de Forbin (died 1728)
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Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin (1779–1841), French painter
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Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson (1785–1844), Bishop of Nancy
Others with this surname include:
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Alfred Forbin (1872-1956), stamp dealer
*The fictional character Charles A. Forbin in the film ''
Colossus: The Forbin Project''
Location:
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Hôtel de Forbin, a
hôtel particulier
() is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...
on the
Cours Mirabeau in
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...
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House of Forbin