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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 430794, member: 5833&quot;]Well, I did say in my first post that I was not sure whether the third letter was an f or an s.&nbsp; The book at the link has been scanned in, so Mafriac is not an optical character recognition error, as abound when OCR is used to convert this sort of thing to plain text.&nbsp; The &#039;f&#039; used in the book, with all parts above the line, is the non-finial &#039;s&#039;, so that &#039;six&#039; looks like &#039;fix&#039;.&nbsp; The true &#039;f&#039;s have the tail below the line, as in Mafriac.&nbsp; However, there is no Massiac in the book, and both &#039;Mafriac&#039; and Massiac are in the Departement du Cantal, so think you are correct.&nbsp; Compare the fourth letter of M. le Comte&#039;s name to the &#039;r&#039; in Henry.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Louis_d%27Espinchal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Louis_d%27Espinchal" rel="nofollow">Marquis de Massiac</a>, well before the time of Henry V.&nbsp; (Why would a French king wannabe sign &#039;Henry&#039; and not &#039;Henri&#039;?)&nbsp; If there was a 19th century Comte, he did not leave enough of a mark to make Wikipedia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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