Lestrade-et-Thouels (; oc, L'Estrada e Toels) is a
commune in the
Aveyron department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in southern
France.
Population
Relation to Inspector Lestrade
The village of Lestrade-et-Thouels is considered as a possible origin of the family name "Lestrade", made famous through the character
Inspector Lestrade who appears in numerous
Sherlock Holmes
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stories.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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is known to have given the fictional inspector the name of a friend from his days at the
University of Edinburgh, a
Saint Lucia
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n medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. The ancestry of Joseph Lestrade is not sufficiently known to establish a certain link between him and the French village.
See also
*
Communes of the Aveyron department
References
Lestradeetthouels
Aveyron communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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