Quesnel

Quesnel or Quesnell means "little oak" in the Picard dialect of French. It is used as a proper name and may refer to:

Quesnel or Quesnell means "little oak" in the Picard dialect of French. It is used as a proper name and may refer to: ==Places== Le Quesnel, a commune the Somme department in France Quesnel, British Columbia, a city in British Columbia, Canada Quesnel Forks, British Columbia, a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada Quesnell Heights, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ==Geographical features== Quesnel Lake Quesnel River Quesnel Highland ==People== Adam Quesnell (born 1981¹/1982), American stand-up comedian Chantal Quesnel (born 1971), Canadian actress Désiré Quesnel (1843–1915), French wood-engraver François Quesnel (1543–1619), 16th-century French artist François Jean Baptiste Quesnel (1768–1819), French general under Napoleon Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel (1785–1866) Canadian lawyer and politician Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809), Canadian operatic composer/playwright Jules-Maurice Quesnel (1786–1842), Canadian fur-trader and politician Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719), French Jansenist theologian Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?), Franciscan Pierre Quesnel (1502–1580), 16th-century French artist, worked in Scotland Pooky Quesnel (born 1966¹), English actress Yannick Quesnel (born 1973), French retired footballer ==Other== Quesnel (sternwheeler) Quesnell Bridge, in Edmonton AB, Canada, over North Saskatchewan River ==See also== Quensel, a superficially similar surname, but of Swedish extraction

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