CAPITALIZATION
Capitalize—
- Proper nouns and adjectives derived from proper nouns:
George, America, North America, Englishman; Elizabethan, French. (See 53.)
But do not capitalize verbs derived from proper names:
to boycott, to fletcherize, to christianize, to pasteurize. - Epithets used as substitutes for proper names, or affixed to a name:
the Pretender, Richard the Lion-hearted, Alexander the Great. - The particles in French names, as "le," "la," "de," "du," when standing without a Christian name or title preceding; but not when preceded by such name or title:
Le Bossu, La Torre, La Rochelle, De Coligny, D'Aubigné, Du Maurier (but: René le Bossu, Miguel de la Torre, Gaspard de Coligny, Thomas d'Aubigné, George du Maurier, Monsieur de la Torre, le comte de Nemours, le duc d'Orléans).
Always capitalize "Van" in Dutch names; never capitalize "von" in German names:
Stephen Van Rensselaer; Hugo von Martius, von Dobschütz.
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