You'd need to do some research to find the name of the person, but it will not be difficult, once you identify the lake I'm thinking of that has been in the news for several months.

Can't figure this one out. In the news recently - but where? That may help.

Location: Not France.

Lake Ponchartrain, name after Comte de Ponchartrain. Working on his real name.

Jérôme de Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain

First name : Louis
Last name (9 letters instead of 10?): Phelypaux

??

But that's not a 10 letter name.

perhaps there was more than one comte....

Ok, my Google source spelled his last name incorrectly: Intrepid got that right, I think.

Jerome was son of Louis.

You (you all, all y'all, yooz) got it. Intrepid has the correct spelling of the last name, and Grandmere has the correct first name (Louis, the father). You can decide between you who'd like to post the next clue. If I must decide, I'll pick Intrepid, in order to get someone new playing this game, and also because finding the family surname was the main challenge.

Intrepid, will you be posting a new clue? Let us know (yes/no), so we'll know whether you've read this, and if you haven't read it or don't want to post a clue, someone else will.

I guess Intrepid is not looking back at this. Grandmere, do you feel like posting a clue? If no reply from Grandmere, would someone else do so?

Just to drop in to say that I was "involutarily exiled." I'm doing some thinking, but I'm sure that the game will carry on just fine without me.

Thanks for checking in. 111op. I wondedred - since there was silence from both you and Roby. I wanted to ask - but didn't want to continue that previous discussion.

Glad you are back on the board. You were missed. The puzzle didn't progress very much while you were gone! :-)

That should have been...
Thanks for checking in, 111op. I wondered...

Don't seem to be able to type today

Thanks, starrville. Well people did solve the clue that cmt posed, which is great.

Sorry to be brief, but given the circumstances and the context of this thread, I guess it's best for everyone.

Understood.
Glad you're back.

Thanks starrville (notice no "_").

Yup. I've noticed.