Last name: BROSSEAU
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BROSSEAU : This last name is indexed 81,512 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BROSSEAU : French: topographic name derived from Old French broce ‘thicket brushwood’ (from Late Latin bruscia) or a habitational name from Le Brosseau the name of several places in the northwestern part of France named from this word. Compare Brousseau.
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