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Faure is an Occitan family name meaning blacksmith, from Latin faber. It is pronounced differently from the accented surname Fauré, as in Gabriel Fauré, French composer and organist.

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People

  • Camille Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer
  • Edgar Faure, French politician
  • Lucie Faure, writer, wife of the former
  • Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist
  • Félix Faure, 19th-century French president
  • Gabriel Faure (1877-1962), French poet, novelist and essayist.
  • Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), French composer
  • Gunter Faure, geochemist
  • Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier
  • Jacques Faure (ambassador), French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
  • Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the French military mission to Japan (1918–19)
  • Jean-Baptiste Faure, French baritone and composer
  • Keith Faure, Australian career criminal
  • Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper
  • Martine Faure, French politician
  • Maurice Faure, French Resistance leader and politician, and the last surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome
  • Sébastien Faure, French anarchist
  • Sébastien Faure (footballer), French footballer
  • Trevor Faure, Australian Actor,
  • Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo

    • Places

  • Faure, South Africa

    • References

    Faure Wikipedia
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