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Girl: Nathalie, Eloise, Maielle
Boys: Felix, Remy, Marc

I love love love French names! My top five for each are...

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1. Francoise
2. Dominique
3. Chloe
4. Ludivine
5. Emmanuelle and Genevieve

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1. Augustin
2. Claude
3. Remy
4. Francois
5. Romain

Hercule, Henri, Louis, Camille
Colette, Claudette, Esmee, Bernadette, Margot

Chantal
Dominique
Giselle
Genevieve
Lisette
Marguerite
Mireille

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Louis
Marcel
Pierre
René

Oceane (don't know how to do accents but it should have one)
Lucie
Anais
Mathilde
Romane
Morgane
Amandine

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Pascal
Etienne

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I know a family in France. They have two sons named Pascal and Etienne which may have influenced the fact that I like both names.

I love all of them (but then I think everything sounds better in French). Some come up in English as well or have variants, but I'll only list ones where I strongly prefer the French version. Some of my favourites are -

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Agathe
Agnes
Amelie
Aurelie
Chantal
Claire
Colette
Cosette
Eulalie
Gaelle (love love love)
Genevieve (French pronunciation)
Helene
Maelys
Mireille (love love love)
Nathalie
Regine
Sandrine
Solene
Therese

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Andre
Anselme
Antoine
Aubin
Augustin
Etienne
Gaetan
Remy
Thibault
Xavier (French pronunciation)

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I haven't got all the accents here, sorry!

All French names sound elegant. I particularly love:

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Anais
Axelle
Christelle
Christiane
Delphine
Solange

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Antoine
Christophe
Jean-Luc
Jean-Pierre
Pierre

Let's see...

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(several of these have accents, but I left them out so the names would link)

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Adeline
Adele
Anouk
Claire
Elodie
Maelys (also Maelle)
Manon
Mireille
Noelle and Noella
Odette

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Etienne
Thierry

Aimée
Christine
Éliane
Élisabeth
Euphrasie
Hélène
Irène
Jacqueline
Joséphine
Louise
Marie
Mathilde
Sophie
Thérèse

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Charles
Georges
Henri
Jean
Joseph
Philippe
Pierre

I love French girl names.

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Eulalie
Pomeline
Clementine
Coralie
Mirabelle
Esme
Elodie
Vienne
Laurentine
Virginie
Vivienne
Jessamine
Jeunesse
Rozenn

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Luxiana

My favourites:

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Adrien
Antonin
Blaise
Christophe
Damien
Joël
Julien
Louis
Lucien
Pierre
Rémi
Rodolphe
Simon
Valentin
Vincent

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Amarante
Angeline
Antoinette
Arianne
Apolline
Cécile
Christelle
Claire
Florence
Francine
Geneviève
Jeanne
Léa
Lydie
Valentine

(Edited to add Mathieu)
My favourite names / Names I like when they are pronounced with the Frensh way:
Aurele / Aurelie (Aurele is on my PNL)
Christian / Christiane
Emmanuel / Emmanuelle
Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste)

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Christophe
David (On my PNL, I like the Frensh pronounciation more than the English)
Andre (I love every Andrew-name exept Andy)
Maurice
Mathieu (On my PNL)
Gaspard
Marc (On my PNL)
Yves

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Flavie
Oceane
Constance - Though I dislike the meaning
Salome (On my PNL)
Marion (Only the Frensh pronounciation!)
Sophie

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Names I like also, but not as much as the ones, which are above
Agathe
Ambre
Blanche
Bastien
Boniface
Celine
Clemence
Clement
Edgard
Edith
Edwige
Eustache
Jean
Judith (Only the Frensh pronounciation!)
Jules
Juste
Lionel
Louis / Louise
Melisande
Modeste
Olivie
Prosper
Remy
Rene
Sylvie

This message was edited 2/14/2008, 10:46 AM

Geneviéve
Babette
Désirée
Renée
Louise
Yvette
Yvonne
Jacqueline
Jeannette
Charlotte
Rémy
Annette
Yves
Yannick

I prefer French male names although I think most female French names are beautiful and have a sophisticated feel to them.

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Favorites: (all male)
Étienne
Guillaume
Loïc
Emmanuel
Guy ( I prefer the French pronounciation but I like the English one too)