Pronunciation of the marshalate
Firstly, I am very sorry that I did not do double checks before reposting content again. So, after some thoughts, I decided to make a better version of our own.
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Notes:
- All pronunciations of names are transcribed into English sounds (as much as possible)
- Since the [y] sound is absent in English, I decided to use the u-umlaut (ü) in German (and Mandarin Chinese pinyin) which was the closest to the “u” in French. The sound is the closest to “u” as in “pure” in English.
- the guttural “r” in French is going to be denoted with “hr”
- “an”, “on” and “in” are nasal sounds
- Please note that even native speakers disagree on some pronunciations
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Charles Pierre François Augereau (O-zher-hro)
Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (Ber-nah-dot)
Louis-Alexandre Berthier (Behr-ti-yer)
Jean-Baptiste Bessières (Be-si-ehr)
Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (Brüne)
Louis-Nicolas Davout (Dah-voo)
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (Zhoohr-don)
François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann (Ke-ler-mahn)
Jean Lannes (Lahn)
François Joseph Lebfevre (Le-fevhr)
André Masséna (Maa-sen-na)
Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (Mon-sey)
Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier (Mohr-ti-yer)
Joachim-Napoléon Murat (Mü-hra)
Michel Ney (it’s between Neh and Nay)
for details, watch this clip of our ginger babe demanding soup (source: Jean-Roch Coignet TV série)
#SoupepourNey #SoupforNey
Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (Pe-hri-zhnon)
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (Se-hrü-hri-ehr)
Jean-de-Dieu Soult (Soo)
Claude Victor-Perrin (Vik-tor-Per-hran)
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald (Mack-Don-nal)
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (Mahr-mon)
Nicolas Charles Oudinot (Oo-di-no)
Louis-Gabriel Suchet (Sü-shay)
Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (Goo-vi-on-Son-Seehr)
Józef Antoni Poniatowski (Pon-ee-ah-tov-ski)
Emmanuel de Grouchy (Ghroo-shee)
I hope I get everything right, also here I would like to thank @histoireettralala for helping me to make this post happen🙈