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Duquesnoy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ430388 ↗
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Duquesnoy is a surname derived from the Picard commune of Le Quesnoy, and may refer to:

Adrien Duquesnoy (1759–1808), French political figure during the French Revolution

Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy (1749–1795), Radical French political figure during the French Revolution and brother of Florent Joseph Duquesnoy

Florent Joseph Duquesnoy (1761–1801), French general during the French Revolution and brother of Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy

François Duquesnoy (1597–1643), Flemish sculptor and son of Jérôme the Elder

Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder (c. 1570–c.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1759, 1808, 1749, 1795—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Duquesnoy, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Duquesnoy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.