From: dgkilday57
Message: 69667
Date: 2012-05-23
>Thanks very much. I actually misread the map index, and the Bart was on the French side of the border in De'p. Doubs (and I still cannot locate it on the map), apparently the same place found by Bh.
> Trond Engen:
>
> > dgkilday57:
> >
> >> DGK:
> >> Another Bart is mentioned in the index to Hammond's France Road Atlas,
> >> just east of the Swiss/French border in western Switzerland. (I
> >> cannot find the place on the map itself inside the square referenced
> >> by the index.) It is hard to believe the old Province Novara was this
> >> large. I hope this is not merely an error on d'Arbois's part which
> >> Dottin and Bottiglioni failed to catch. The latter was fairly fussy
> >> about the Corsican place-names with which he dealt in his monograph.
> >
> > Chez-le-Bart, a village in District de Boudry on the north shore of
> > Lac de Neuchâtel. 'Le Bart' looks as it might be (or have been) the
> > name of a small river running into the lake there.
>
> Or maybe not. I thought of 'chez' as Latin <casa>, but it's probably
> just the familiar preposition meaning "in the home of", with 'le Bart'
> being the surname of some old proprietor.
>
> > But I'll rush to say that I've never been anywhere near and know
> > nothing about Swiss toponymics.
>
> I'll keep that caveat.