Le Hénaff (modern orthography Henañ) is a surname of
Breton
Breton most often refers to:
*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
** Breton people
** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Ga ...
origin meaning ''the elder''. Like for the surname ''
Heussaff'' or ''
Gourcuff'', the
digraph ''-ff'' was introduced by Middle Ages' authors to indicate a
nasalized
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
In the Internationa ...
vowel. It may refer to any the following people:
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René Le Hénaff
René Le Hénaff (24 April 1901 – 5 January 2005) was a French film editor and director. As a film editor he collaborated with directors Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Géza von Radványi among others. His three films with Carné in the late ...
(1901–2005), French film editor and director
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Cédric Le Hénaff (born 1984), French football player
* (born 1914), French resistant
See also
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Jean-Jacques Hénaff, French CEO of a
Pâté
''Pâté'' ( , , ) is a paste, pie or loaf filled with a forcemeat. Common forcemeats include ground meat from pork, poultry, fish or beef; fat, vegetables, herbs, spices and either wine or brandy (often cognac or armagnac). It is often ser ...
company
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Eugène Hénaff (1904-1966), French politician
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Jeannine Henaff (born 1936), French electrical engineer
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Marcel Hénaff (1942-2018), French philosopher and anthropologist
*, French TV presenter
References
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Surnames of Breton origin
Breton-language surnames