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Faure is an
Occitan family name meaning
blacksmith , from
Latin faber . It is pronounced
[fɔʁ] in
French (unlike
Fauré which is pronounced
[foʁe] ).
People
Politicians
Dominique Faure (born 1959), French politician
Edgar Faure (1908–1988), French politician
Félix Faure (1841–1899), French politician and President of France from 1895 until his death
Fernand Faure (1853–1929), French economist and politician
Jacques Faure (ambassador) , French co-chair of the
OSCE Minsk Group
Louis-Joseph Faure (1760-1837) French jurist and politician
Olivier Faure (born 1968), French politician
Martine Faure (born 1948), French politician
Maurice Faure (1922–2014),
French Resistance leader and politician, and the last surviving signatory of the
Treaty of Rome
Sébastien Faure (1858–1942), French anarchist
Faure Gnassingbé , president of Togo
Writers, artists, and musicians
Others
Abraham Faure (1795–1875), South African clergyman
Camille Alphonse Faure , French chemical engineer
Gunter Faure , American geochemist
Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier
Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the
French military mission to Japan (1918–1919)
Keith Faure , Australian career criminal
Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper
Sébastien Faure (footballer) , French footballer
See also
Celtic Germanic Romance Semitic Slavic Other From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'