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I just looked that up, and apparently it's "Lefèvre" that refers to smiths: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lef%C3%A8vre_(patronyme) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki

by Zababa 5y ago

I just looked that up, and apparently it's "Lefèvre" that refers to smiths: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lef%C3%A8vre_(patronyme) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lef%C3%A8vre_(patronyme).

gommm 5y ago
Ok, and that and Lefebvre are definitely very very common. Thanks for looking it up.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  And both are probably French forms of the article's "Faber"? (Maker, AIUI, kind of could have been "Faire-ieur" in French? In stead it's related to factor, factory, manufacture etc.) (Also mentioned above, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421872 )