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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3618528" data-attributes="member: 24811">The birth certificate says "Monguillot".([<a href="http://archives.paris.fr/s/4/etat-civil-actes/?" target="_blank">here</a>]. "Type de document": "Naissances"; "Arrondissement": "09"; "Année": "1874"; "Date de l'acte (jj/mm/aaaa)": "11/08/1874". Click "Rechercher", open the file "5 août 1874 (acte n° 1434)", and go to page 10/31: lower left.)All the 30 Léonore documents also spell it that way, except #5, which has "Montguillot". But #5 is just a note written by some civil servant, announcing the transmission of a declaration of loss of another document; not really an 'official' document, thus. On the declaration itself (which is #6), the name is spelt "Monguillot" again.I can't see a 't' in the middle of any of his signatures there either.(Many French names (toponyms or personal names derived from them) are formed by the contraction of 'Mont' (= mount), and some other word (Montmartre, Montjoie, etc.), so that it would be quite easy to add a 't' by mistake in a name that lacks it. These names are pronounced as if they were still two words, i.e., unless the second 'word' starts with a vowel, the 't' at the end of the first 'word' is completely mute. You would not hear any difference between "Monguillot" and "Montguillot".)</blockquote>