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Rossignols

The Rossignols, a family of French cryptographers and cryptanalysts, included:

  • Antoine Rossignol (1600–1682)
  • ' Bonaventure Rossignol'
  • ' Antoine-Bonaventure Rossignol'

The family name meant " nightingale" in French. As early as 1406 the word rossignol has served as the French term for " skeleton key" or for any tool which opens that which is locked.