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1) I think Maximilienne is pretty! I looked up its stats in France and it has totally fallen out of favour, and doesn't appear to have been used once since about 1990, but it peaked in about 1910, and I tend to gravitate toward older names.
Milly is cute.

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I like:
Maximilienne Laure and Maximilienne Iris. The other ones are either too long for me with Maximilienne, or are too not-French and clash in my mind.
Maximilienne Celeste
Maximilienne Flore
Maximilienne Gaëlle
Maximilienne Hortense (amazing!)
Maximilienne Julie
Maximilienne Olympe
Maximilienne Yseult

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2) I love: Fabienne, Faustine, Ludivine (there's an actress with this name. I know a Ludmila, and I also came cross the Spanish Luzdivina and the Catalan Llumdivina this year and I think those are really cool, too)
Sébastienne (I alsomost feel guilty for liking this, but I'm not sure why, haha), Zéphyrine

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I like: Augustine, Cyrielle, Donatienne (this is really interesting!), Emmanuelle, Julienne, Léopoldine, Perrine, Raphaëlle, Sévérine

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Benjamine catches my attention, too. Like Sébastienne, I feel kind of guilty about it, but I can't help it. It's used in France, too, so that helps me not feel as bad.

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I like Claudie, but not Claudette.
I kind of like Fernande as well. It's an other one of those "peak in the early 1900s" name, so I'm not surprised it catches my eye.

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The others aren't really my cup of tea, though I feel like I should like Léonide, Lucienne and Victoire... except I'm not a fan at all.

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I know a Marie-Claude, Frédérique, Françoise, Antoinette, Bernadette, Christiane, Laurence, Eugénie, Jocelyne (I see Jocelyn as a male name).
Hugette was Maurice Richard's daughter's name, right?
I also like Ghislaine.

This message was edited 7/11/2011, 12:53 PM