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Thread: Some help translating French
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24th April 2013, 11:16 PM #1
Some help translating French
Hey, anybody out there speak or read French well enough to help me translate some script. It is written (or more precisely engraved in a fancy script and make siot tricky to make out the the letters)
What I have so far is
FD (the D is Superscript) CLAUD III, RUE JO(backwards P)UELET, I, PRES LU BOURSE, A PARIS
Hope someone can help. Google translate doesn't help.
ThanksIf you find you have dug yourself a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
I just finished child-proofing our house - but they still get inside.
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24th April 2013, 11:28 PM #2
Rue is a street so I'm guessing its an address.
CLAUD III, RUE JOQUELET, IPRES LA BOURSE, A PARIS
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25th April 2013, 12:58 AM #3
Liogier might stick his head in.
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25th April 2013, 05:24 PM #4
FD CLAUD III
This appears to be a name
RUE JO(backwards P)UELET,
Rue (Street) Joquelet. A street name. According to Wikipedia this street name appears on maps of the late 18th century. This street has been renamed Rue Leon Claudel
I, PRES LU BOURSE
Perhaps Pres (near) La Bourse? (The Paris stock exchange). Or Place de la Bourse, which is another street in Paris near Rue Leon Cladel and the current stock exchange.
A PARIS
A (At, in) Paris
Open Google maps and put in the following reference, and you will get a map of the area.
La Bourse Paris, France
Remember, Rue Joquelet is now Rue Leon Claudel.
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25th April 2013, 08:15 PM #5
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I fully agree with what has wrote switt775.
Regarding the name, "FD" (d superscript) might be the abbreviation of "Ferdinand", a fairly commun first name by that time in France.
"CLAUD III" is should be "CLAUDE" (the correct spelling needs a final "E"), either the "E" is deleted and the "III" remains, which looks then like a king name (which one?), either the "III" is the "E" engraved oddly.
I believe it is "Ferdinand Claude", which was a engraver in Paris in the XIX century :
Claude Ferdinand Gaillard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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25th April 2013, 08:26 PM #6
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