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Duchesne, UT -- U.S. city in Utah
Population (2000): 1408
Housing Units (2000): 550
Land area (2000): 2.303138 sq. miles (5.965101 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.303138 sq. miles (5.965101 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20340
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.164388 N, 110.400607 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84021
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Duchesne, UT
Duchesne
Duchesne -- U.S. County in Utah
Population (2000): 14371
Housing Units (2000): 6988
Land area (2000): 3238.052778 sq. miles (8386.517838 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 17.917923 sq. miles (46.407205 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3255.970701 sq. miles (8432.925043 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.248254 N, 110.341804 W
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Duchesne, UT
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Duchesne

Duchesne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Joseph Duchesne (c. 1544–1609), French physician and chemist. Physician-in-ordinary to King Henry IV
  • André Duchesne (1584–1640), French historian
  • François Duchesne (1616–1693), French historian, son of André Duchesne
  • Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747–1827) French botanist and strawberry breeder
  • Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852), Catholic nun and French saint
  • Henri Gabriel Duchesne (1793–1822), French naturalist
  • Abbé Louis Duchesne (1843–1922), French priest, philologist, teacher and Church historian
  • Ernest Duchesne (1874–1912), French physician
  • Roger Duchesne (1906–1996), French film actor
  • André Duchesne (musician) (1949–), Canadian musician
  • Ricardo Duchesne, Canadian historical sociologist
  • Gaétan Duchesne (1962–2007), French Canadian ice hockey player
  • Steve Duchesne (1965–), French Canadian ice hockey player

Usage examples of "duchesne".

What is the use is killing in a town like Arras, for instance, where, on the day of the civic oath, the president of the department, a prudent millionaire, stalks through the streets arm in arm with Aunty Duchesne, who sells cookies down in a cellar, where, on election days, the townspeople, through cowardice, elect the club candidates under the pretense that "rascals and beggars" must be sent off to Paris to purge the town of them!

To fall in love with Pere Duchesne, to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on the guitar under the balcony of '93 -- it's enough to make one spit on all these young fellows, such fools are they!

To fall in love with Père Duchesne to cast sheep's eyes at the guillotine, to sing ditties and play the guitar under the balcony of '93.