I HATE French spelling!
You should try tracking down Huguenot ancestors in early colonial Virginia. The surname spelling often changes from one child to the next in the same generation, let alone from generation to generation. I’ve got some that ended up Ford, but came over as Faure. Intermediate alternate spellings were all over the map, Fore, Foree, Fauree, Fare, Farr. Talk about genealogical fun.