FAUBOURG, the French name for a portion of a town which lies outside the walls, hence properly a suburb. The name sur vives in certain parts of Paris, such as the Faubourg St. Antoine and the Faubourg St. Germain, etc., which have long since ceased to be suburbs. The earlier spelling faux-bourg, and the occurrence in mediaeval Latin of falsus-burgus (see Ducange, Glossarium, s.v. "Falsus-Burgus"), was taken as showing its obvious origin and meaning, the sham or quasi-borough.