The last name Fournier
Does anyone know where this name is from and what it means? Thank you so much!
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French: occupational name for a baker, Old French fournier (Latin furnarius), originally the man responsible for cooking the dough in the fourneau ‘oven’ (see Baker). This surname is frequently Americanized as Fuller.

(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
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