noun, masculine/dɔʒ/plural: doges
doge
“Non pas, non pas, cria-t-on de tous côtés ; il y a encore Venise. - Venise la reine des mers ! - Le lion de Saint-Marc ! - Le Bucentaure ! - Le doge ! - Quel homme qu'un doge ![…]” — "No, no," we cried from both sides; "there is still Venice. Venice the queen of the seas! The lion of St Mark! The Bucintoro! The doge! What a man is a doge!"
Borrowed from Italian doge or directly from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem (“leader; commander; ruler”).