Bonjour Cousin Patrick: I was hoping you would enter the conversation about the Maupin name being you are the only true French person I know of on the list. Don't flay me cousins if there are others! I asked a French friend from Montreal, by the way, how she would pronounce Maupin as I'd heard it was "Mo-peen" and didn't think that was right. I was told "Mow-pah" and the pah rather comes through the nasal passages. That would be my take on how to pronounce it correctly. French people are sticklers on how their language is pronounced folks! In our USA family we say "Mah-pin" so you can see it might be spelled correctly, but it sure isn't pronounced correctly. Now, Patrick, YOU tell us the super correct way to pronounce Maupin AND, would it make a difference in different parts of France? In the USA the same word can be pronounced many ways depending on where one is from. Best, Cousine Sandi