Quiz: can you guess what people from these French cities are called?

Test your knowledge of gentilés around France

Bretons, Alsaciens, Parisiens... places all around France have names for their inhabitants
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Did you know that French regions, departments, cities and even villages give a name (un gentilé) to their inhabitants?

The word gentilé comes from the Latin gentile, which translates as de gens (of people).

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Guess the gentilé

From Parisiens (de Paris) to Bretons (de Bretagne), how many of the following gentilés can you identify?

1. Saint Malo 

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A) Malouin(e)s

2. Calais 

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A) Calaisien(ne)s

3. La Rochelle

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A) Rochelais(es)

4. Tours

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A) Tourangeaux (Tourangelles)

5. Saint Etienne

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A) Stéphanois(e)s

6. Metz

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A) Messin(e)s

7. Montpellier

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A) Montpelliérain(e)s

8. Strasboug

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A) Strasbourgeois(es)

9. Poitiers

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A) Pictavien(ne)s

10. Narbonne

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A) Narbonnais(es)

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