Fouquet
Fouquet (Foucquet) is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- , sculptor active in Sweden
- Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684–1761), French general and statesman
- Christophe Fouquet (born 1974), French bobsledder
- Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne (1560–1616), French chef and statesman
- Jean Fouquet (1420–1481), French painter
- Louis Charles Armand Fouquet (1693–1747), French general
- Nicolas Fouquet (1615–1680), French superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV of France
- Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694–1772), French organist and harpsichordist
- , the head of Opéra National de Bordeaux in 1996-2016
See also[]
- Fouquet's, a Parisian restaurant
NOTE: Many immigrants to America anglicized their surname to either Fuqua or Fuquay upon arrival in America.[1]
References[]
- ^ Hanks, Patrick (2003-05-08). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 613. ISBN 9780199771691.
Categories:
- Surnames
- French-language surnames