Quoting pauls42:

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Unfortunately you just gave text that he should use on page 1 of this thread. Now saying they actually have to be true is on page 2 of the thread.

I am always careful not to give something which should be cut/pasted into a submission - instead I always want the person to have to think about what he is doing and to document that.

Thanks!
I have edited my post. 

Quoting surfeur51:

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...unsavoury... ...fetid...

Are you using a dictionary or are you hiding your displeasement?

Quoting surfeur51:

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If you do not like to be told a few truths by PM, I can do this in general forum, following your thread "The wrong information from Surfeur51"

It is clearly you who can't handle the truth. I showed you the facts. Keep on feeding the wrong information.

Quoting Unicus69:

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If you are speaking of the other thread, the one that is locked, I must disagree.  The Paris telephone directory aside, surfeur51 is correct.  I did the research, on my own, and found several sites that confirm his claim.  The following is from about.com.

The letter C in French is a lot like the C in English. It can be pronounced in one of two ways:

Soft pronunciation (see Vowels for explanation) - In front of an E, I, or Y the C is pronounced like an S.

Hard pronunciation (see Vowels for explanation) - In front of an A, O, U, or a consonant, the C is prounced like a K.

When a C is in front of a hard vowel but has to be pronounced as a soft C, the accent cedille - ç - is added to make it soft. Thus, ç is never found in front of an E or I, because those are soft vowels.

Now, can some people decide not to use the 'ç' when they write their name?  Of course they can.  Is it possible that the person who entered some of those name did so in error?  Of course it is.  Bottom line, surfeur's information was correct.

It has nothing to do with the Language rules. It had simply to do with the fact that FRANCOIS was not always François. As you have the Family name Francois and François and strangely enough also firstnames Francois and combinations of Francois(e). They can't be all typo's see allso the link to the Centre Généalogique des Côtes d'Armor: ... ni les prénoms composés à partir de Francois et Francoise ... what means to me there must be first names with Francois or Francoise or composed names. So the search showed me that the first names where there. (where else to look for names then in a phone book)