[Taxacom] proper use of "de" in a French name

[Michael A. Ivie]

Not my question, which was "how would a Francophone do it", with a 
request that it be answered by an actual Francophone.  I know well how 
the Anglophones would mangle it. 

Mike

Edwards, G.B. wrote:

>But when starting a sentence in English (Mike's question), the first
>word is always capitalized, as far as I can recall, even a normally
>uncapitalized article in a foreign language.  A perhaps more interesting
>and applicable question regards the subsequent geneology of the Vicomte
>in question:  Did his descendants adopt Bonvouloir, de Bonvouloir, or
>(not inconceivably) Henry as the surname.  I would argue that whichever
>of these is subsequently correct (if there was only one) would be the
>name to be cited.  As Mike noted, Vicomte de Bonvouloir is a title, not
>a surname.
>
>  
>

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