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De Gaulle's name comes from "Van de Walle" a typical Flemish name. His family has its roots in the Département du Nord, which is French by conquest (Louis xiv; 1650-1700), and which is called 'French Flanders'... (they have the same flag as the current flemish region/community!--> dutch was also the second language in France!)

There is probably more going on than a simple bastardisation of this name under French linguistic influence; it is likely the "Van de Walles" changed their name fairly recently into "De Gaulle" for political and social reasons (the flemish usually being a subclass of woring folks and peasantry, and looked down upon)... as such this frenchification might be more likely a political conversion of the nineteenth century (nationalism!) that is globally fairly typical... (for instance the anglification of names of immigrants into the US, to avoid being the subject of racism and discrimination)

therefore it should be investigated when (and also why!) the "Van de Walles" changed -if deliberately- their familyname...

Monoclemask (talk) 09:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At first, could you give us some references for this free statement ?

At second, Your statement has nothing to do here, you should have posted that into the discussion about de Gaulle article.

90.9.154.40 (talk) 21:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your post is typical of deslusional Flemish that cling to French and try to steal their history, "De Gaulle" is purely French, as for Charles De Gaulle himself his family trace its roots back to Châlon-sur-Marne, in Champagne. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.20.51.248 (talk) 14:42, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Name of France/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

The style of thr article does not meet encyclopedic standards. The author should introduce more citations to support its assertions, especially concerning the use of the word "France" in "Stade de France". I think that the stadium was named after the country, not after a specific suburban area of Paris.

Last edited at 11:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 00:49, 30 April 2016 (UTC)