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Michael,
What an enjoyable note! Although my silent pronunciation of your last name was correct, I admit I had been thinking the hard "k" in Michael.
French pronunciation, I believe, of the "g" depends upon what follows it. The 'g' is soft (zhe sound) when followed by an "e", for example, Jean-Leon Gerome. However the "g" becomes a hard "g" when followed by a "u" as in "guerre" (the French word for war), or as in Bouguereau.
I had prounced Bouguereau's name wrong for years, and an artist friend and I got into a discussion about hard and soft "g"s. Then she pointed out that I had been spelling it wrong all along, without the second "u".
Au revoir.
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