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Subject: Re: Legit or not?
Author: Siegfried   (guest, 151.51.156.20)
Date: August 7, 2010 at 6:27:33 AM
Reply to: Legit or not? by ghostwriter (NSI)
It seems to be a real French surname. There are, for example:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Gervaise, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Charles_Gervaise_de_Latouche, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Armand_Gervaise, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Gervaise.
Gervais/Gervaise is also a real French given name, the equivalent of Latin Gervasius, probably a Latinized form of a Germanic name with a first element deriving from ger "spear".

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