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Subject: Re: Foch
Author: Jim Young   (guest, 213.249.129.3)
Date: March 18, 2005 at 5:52:24 AM
Reply to: Vollmer by Madchen
Foch is French (Gascony); it is the Gascon spelling of the Occitan pronunciation of the place-name Foix, a Pyrenean county. Occitan was the old language of Pyrenean France, closely related to Catalan.

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