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Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France and French in the United States). Others were named after early Americans of French, especially Huguenot, ancestry (Marion, Revere, Fremont, Lanier, Sevier, Macon, Decatur, etc.). Some places received their names as a consequence of French colonial settlement (e.g. Baton Rouge, Detroit, New Orleans, Saint Louis). Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin (Baton Rouge, Boise, Des Moines, Juneau, Montgomery, Montpelier, Pierre, Richmond, Saint Paul) - not even counting Little Rock (originally "La Petite Roche") or Cheyenne (a French rendering of a Lakota word). Fifteen state names are either French words / origin (Delaware, New Jersey, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Vermont) or Native American words rendered by French speakers (Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin). The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks). Alabama Albertville Barbour County Bay Minette ("Kitty Bay" or "Cute Bay") Bayou la Batre ("Bayou of the Battery") Belle Fontaine ("Beautiful Fountain") Belle Mina Bon Air ("Good Air") Bon Secour ("Good Rescue") Centreville (City-center, or Downtown. Note the "re" spelling of centre, as opposed to "er" as in center) Citronelle (named after the citrus trees.) Daphne Dauphin Island (named after the Dauphin, French crown prince) DeArmanville Decatur Decatur County Delchamps Detroit Fayette County Gasque Grande Batture Islands Isle aux Dames (Island of the ladies) Isle aux Herbes (Island of the herbs) LaFayette Lamar County Le Moyne (The Monk, old spelling) Leroy Malbis Marion (named after Francis Marion, patriot of the American Revolution and of Huguenot ancestry) Mentone Mobile (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe) Mobile County Mon Louis Montrose Semmes Alaska La Chaussée Spit at the entrance of Lituya Bay. Named originally in charts prepared by French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse in 1786. La Chaussée means "causeway". Mount La Pérouse (3231 m) and La Pérouse Glacier in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, both named after French explorer and naval captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse Gastineau Channel named after John Gastineau, an English Civil Engineer and Surveyor with a French surname. Compare with Gatineau. Juneau named after Joseph Juneau, French-Canadian prospector and gold miner Arizona Clemenceau (Named after the French prime minister during World War I) Picket Wire (Corruption of the French Purgatoire, "Purgatory") Peridot Arkansas Arkansas (named by French explorers from aboriginal word meaning "south wind") Antoine ("Anthony") Aurelle Auvergne (a French region) Barraque Township Bayou Bayou Meto, Arkansas County, Arkansas Bayou Meto, Lonoke County, Arkansas Beauchamp (fair of beautiful field or plain) Beaudry Belleaire (from "belle aire", beautiful place) Belleville ("Beautiful City") Bellefonte (maybe from "belle fontaine", beautiful fountain) Boeuf ("Beef") Bonair (good air) Buie Burdette Cache Cadron Calumet The French word for a Native American tobacco pipe. Calvin (Anglicized version of Cauvin, famous French Protestant) Champagnolle Chancel Chicot County (a stump) Claude Cloquet Darcy De Roche (of the rock) Deberrie Decatur Delaplaine (Of-the-plains, surname) Departee Devue Des Arc ("At the bend") Dumas (French surname) Ecore Fabre Fayetteville (named for French general, Marquis de La Fayette) Fontaine ("Fountain", a surname) Fourche ("Pitchfork") Fourche Lafave Fourche Valley Francure Frenchman's Bayou Gallatin Grand Glaise ("Large Clay") Gravette La Fave La Grue (the crane) La Grue Springs Lacrosse Ladelle Lafayette County LaGrange ("the barn") Lamartine (French author Alphonse de Lamartine, also a surname) L'Anguille ("The Eel") Lapile Larue (the street) Latour (the tower) Lave Creek Levesque ("Bishop", a common French-Canadian surname) Macon (French city "Mâcon") Marais Saline (saline marsh) Marche Maumee Maumelle (breasts) Monette Mont Sandels Montreal (royal mount) Moreau (feedbag, probably a family's proper name) Mount Magazine New Gascony (Gascony) Ozark (phonetic rendering of either aux Arks, "of the Ark(ansas)" or aux Arcs, "of the arches", or possibly aux arcs-en-ciel, "of the rainbows") Ozark Mountains as per immediately above Paris Paroquet Partain Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River) Pollard Prairie County ("prairie, meadow") Sans Souci (literally without concern) Segur (French city) Sevier County Smackover (Anglicization of chemin couvert, "covered way") Soudan St. Francis County Terre Noire (black earth) Terre Rouge (redland or red earth) Tollette Tully Urbanette Vallier (French surname) Vaucluse (French region) Vaugine Township Vidette Villemont (ville = city, mont = mount) California Alsace (Region in France bordering Germany) Artois (named after Artois, France) Bel Air ("Beautiful Air") Belfort ("Beautiful Fort") Belmont ("Beautiful Mount") Bonnefoy ("Good Faith") Brisbane (French "brise" and Old English "bane," meaning bone) Cassel (a town in France) Chalfant Concord (from French "concorde" meaning agreement, harmony, or union) Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye") Disneyland (after Walt Disney, a descendant of the Norman family d'Isigny (Isigny, Normandie, France)) Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, American soldier, explorer and politician of French ancestry) Friant Gasquet Guerneville Lafayette (named for the French general Marquis de La Fayette) La Grange ("The Barn") La Grange Reservoir La Porte ("The door") La Verne Lebec (Le bec = "the beak") Le Grand ("The Big") Montague (pointed hill) Montclair ("Clear Mountain") Nice (After French city of the same name) Nord ("North") Orleans Piedmont (French spelling of the Piedmont region of Italy) Richmond (After Virginian city of the same name with French origins) Rubidoux (named for Louis Rubidoux) Mount Rubidoux San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi, who had received that name because his mother was French or as a tribute to France) Vichy Springs (After French city of the same name) Colorado Ault Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight" or View") Berthoud Berthoud Pass and town of Berthoud Bethune (Maybe from Maximilien de Béthune, also a place)nghn Bijou Creek (from bijoux meaning "jewel") Cache La Poudre River ("hide the powder" or "powder cache") Calumet See Arkansas D.... 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