Goupil

Goupil (from the popular Latin vulpiculus, variant of vulpecula, itself a diminutive of vulpes, or "renard" in french, meaning "fox") is the term used in the Middle Ages to designate the fox, before the latter designation replaced it under the influence of "Renart le goupil", hero of Reynard the Fox.

Goupil may refer to:

People

• Adolphe Goupil (1806–1893), French captain of industry, art publisher and art dealer, founder of Goupil & Cie.
• Albert Goupil (1840–1884), French art collector, son of Adolphe Goupil
• Albert Goupil (1878–1956), French politician, mayor of Laval
• Clément-Jacques Goupil (1784–1858), French politician
• Ernest Goupil (1814–1841), French painter, participated in the Dumont d'Urville expedition
• Eugène Goupil (1831–1896), French Mexican philanthropist and collector
• Guillaume François Charles Goupil de Préfelne (1727–1801), member of the Council of Five Hundred
• Jeanne Goupil (born 1950), French actress
• Jules-Adolphe Goupil (1839–1883), French painter and engraver
• Laval Goupil (1945–2000), Canadian Acadian actor, playwright and director
• Léon-Lucien Goupil (1834–1891), French painter
• Linda Goupil (born 1961), Québécois politician
• René Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary, one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church
• Romain Goupil (born 1951), French cineaste

Places

• Manneville-la-Goupil, a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Haute-Normandie, France

Other

• Goupil & Cie, 19th-century French art dealership
• Goupil Industrie, a manufacturer of electric vehicles
• SMT Goupil, French IT company on the timeline of DOS operating systems