Talk:Name of France

[Untitled]
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)

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)

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)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 00:49, 30 April 2016 (UTC)