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Frenchville is a suburban area of Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
 in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. Situated at the base of the Berserker Range about seven kilometres to the north of the Fitzroy River
Fitzroy River (Queensland)

The Fitzroy River lies in Central Queensland, Australia. Its catchment covers an area of 150,000 square kilometres, making it the second largest river catchment in Australia, after that of the Murray-Darling Basin system....
, the district was named for Anthelme Thozet
Anthelme Thozet

Anthelme Thozet was a French-Australian botanist and ethnographer.His naturalisation in Rockhampton, Queensland 9 January 1862, states that he was born at Belley east of Lyon in France about 1827, and his obituary depicts him as a political refugee following the Revolutions of 1848 in France....
, first director of the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens in the 1860s. Frenchman's Creek which runs through the area was also named for Thozet. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. The most recent census was conducted on 8 August 2006....
, Frenchville had a population of 8,927.

The area was completely rural in character until the late 1960s, with small holdings and dairy farms predominating.






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Frenchville is a suburban area of Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland

Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Areas of Australia located in Queensland, Australia. Rockhampton is the largest urban centre in Central Queensland with the 2006 census recording the Rockhampton Statistical Subdivision population to be 74,530 people....
 in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. Situated at the base of the Berserker Range about seven kilometres to the north of the Fitzroy River
Fitzroy River (Queensland)

The Fitzroy River lies in Central Queensland, Australia. Its catchment covers an area of 150,000 square kilometres, making it the second largest river catchment in Australia, after that of the Murray-Darling Basin system....
, the district was named for Anthelme Thozet
Anthelme Thozet

Anthelme Thozet was a French-Australian botanist and ethnographer.His naturalisation in Rockhampton, Queensland 9 January 1862, states that he was born at Belley east of Lyon in France about 1827, and his obituary depicts him as a political refugee following the Revolutions of 1848 in France....
, first director of the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens in the 1860s. Frenchman's Creek which runs through the area was also named for Thozet. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. The most recent census was conducted on 8 August 2006....
, Frenchville had a population of 8,927.

The area was completely rural in character until the late 1960s, with small holdings and dairy farms predominating. A State primary school was established in 1900. In the late 1960s suburban development rapidly took place and the small school rapidly grew to an enrolment of well over 1,000 in the late 1970s.